[50330] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Thu Jul 25 18:23:22 2002
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:22:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: "Rowland, Alan D" <alan_r1@corp.earthlink.net>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020725221142.GN99199@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> I can't imagine they would actually follow through with this though, all
> it takes is one incident where they cause financial harm to someone with
> an mp3 they misidentify and their highground is gone. Then again, I can't
> imagine congress being so massively stupid either, so I suppose anything
> is possible.
One scenario I can imagine is the MPAA ddos'ing or h4x0ring a university
hospital network because they found warez on some secretary's desktop PC.
As a result, some databases get corrupted and patients die. Would this
bill shield the MPAA from being liable for manslaughter?
-Dan
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