*Ding Ding* The fight is on!
I read on News.com about the newest threat to our own privacy and computers. It seems that from entertainment industry's anti-piracy push has triggered a bill introduced into the House of Representatives would allow copyright owners to legally hack into peer-to-peer networks and disable PCs used for illicit file trading.
The bill doesn't specify what techniques, such as viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks and domain name hijacking, would be permissible. It does say that a copyright hacker should not delete files, but it limits the right of anyone subject to an intrusion to sue if files are accidentally erased.
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