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To: JeanS
this will legalize hacking. Who would you put your hacking bets on? The RIAA or a bunch of motivated college kids? This assumes that such destructive hacking becomes legal.
289 posted on 06/18/2003 11:44:55 AM PDT by longtermmemmory
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To: longtermmemmory
this will legalize hacking. Who would you put your hacking bets on? The RIAA or a bunch of motivated college kids? This assumes that such destructive hacking becomes legal.

Let's take this idea and have some fun with it. If the 'over-due for retirement' senator wants to make it legal for the record companies and their lawyers to hack into and destroy our computers, then if they REALLY want to level the playing field, make it legal for those attacked to retaliate in kind (and no, this would not mean that the RIAA could hire goon squads to do home invasions of let the script kiddies take up sniping or explosive ordinance. It's confined to cyberspace). Would this be anarchy? Perhaps...or maybe there are times when the Big Brother needs to step back and let us kids fight it out and settle it amongst ourselves instead of catering to the lawyers. On a true level playing field, you couldn't get me to bet on the RIAA winning this fight, not even on a dare!

347 posted on 06/18/2003 8:18:43 PM PDT by Orangedog (Soccer-Moms are the biggest threat to your freedoms and the republic !)
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