Representative Howard Berman (D-California), legislator for the entertainment industry, is said to be preparing legislation that would let copyright owners hack into their customers computers to stop file-swapping activities. Berman claims that his constituency needs legal protections to combat piracy and should be immune from prosecution under anti-hacking laws. “While P2P (peer-to-peer) technology is free to innovate new and more efficient methods of distribution that further exacerbate the piracy problem, copyright owners are not equally free to craft technological responses,” said Berman’s public statement. “This is not fair.”
Berman has yet to introduce his proposed bill. When he does, I’ll have an analysis.
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