Senator Orrin Hatch a Pirate? (YEP!)

http://www.wired.com ^ | 11:56 AM Jun. 19, 2003 PT | By Leander Kahney

[shadowman99]

Dear Orrin -

Nice Glass House!

Yours Truely - Everyone who still believes in "Fair Use"

[Howlin]

In all fairness to Hatch, his site is on the Senate server; if he's doing it, so is the rest of the Senate.

I bet he doesn't even know.

[lilylangtree]

"He who is without sin, cast the first stone." Yo Orrin, you aren't one without sin.

[Arkinsaw]

This is no surprise. Senators are not bound by the same rules as peasants. They are exempt from many things that they enforce on others.

[Arkinsaw]

I bet he doesn't even know.

Of course he doesn't know because he doesn't have a clue about what he is talking about. Probably has no idea how to play Freecell. All he knows is what he reads off the script handed to him by whatever special interest is paying this week.

[shadowman99]

You may feel like pinging some people :)

[xrp]

No, this is doubtful. Just because it is on the same server doesn't mean anything. Some other Senators could be using applications to serve their webpages that Orrin is or is not using.

[AntiGuv]

All he knows is what he reads off the script handed to him by whatever special interest is paying he's whoring for this week.

[Robert_Paulson2]

who cares... do they care if you ignorantly forget to obey their rules?
hellno...

orin is a hippo.
and the twisting of copyright laws to preclude fair use is BS.
Two or three news outlets enjoined us severa years back to NOT post their articles.

EVERY other outlet in the USA... is just fine with full postings.
hatch is a compromised jerk.
I wish he would resign and let someone with a spine take his place.

He is a ted kennedy collaborator... and I want him to dry up, blow away, and make room for somebody with brass balls and a sense of avoiding "you have to obey the laws, that we are exemped from ourselves..." situations like this one.

hatch, idiot, hypocrite, end of story.

[FastCoyote]

Bill O'Reilly was on radio with the same crap a day or so - totally clueless - calling for a new division of cyber police. I agree the porn and spam are terrible, they absolutely underestimate the ability of a self-healing network designed to survive nuclear attack - to well heal itself and go around their statist baloney.

[Navy Patriot]

This means that anyone who hacks Hatch's computer is the good guy by Hatch's own definition.

[CyberAnt]

Good Point!

And ... for that matter ... who did know this information ...??

[PAGOP]

God sometimes I wish ol' Orin would SHUT UP...this is one of those times!

[MattGarrett]

I think I'm going to leave it up to my good friend Miriam to comment on this one:

hy·poc·ri·sy (hi-'pä-kr&-sE) n. a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion

[lonestar]

This is no surprise. Senators are not bound by the same rules as peasants. They are exempt from many things that they enforce on others.

Such as Social Security!

[billbears]

It doesn't matter. He shouldn't have opened his mouth about something he himself is guilty of. Anyway, the company's spokesperson even stated

Milonic's Woolley said the senator's unlicensed use of his software was just "the tip of the iceberg." He said he knows of at least two other senators using unlicensed copies of his software

It doesn't say 99 other Senators, just two. They're probably a few more, but as with all politicians, the rules don't apply to them the same as they do us. I wonder if Giddy goes out and makes sure they're all wearing their seatbelts before they leave the Capitol grounds? ;)

[jagrmeister]

Orrin is an idiot. He had a chance to clarify his remarks and instead only reiterated his support for "extreme" measures (albeit in the case moderate measures do not work) against those who share digital music. I fear some may get the idea that the GOP's solution to any problem involves "destroying" the wrongdoer. They bomb us? Destroy them. They make copies of their digital music? Destroy their computers. It's not the kind of impression we want to make on people.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Between Hatch and Hollywood Hollings they're more worried about some 13 year old downloading a stupid song than the country's real problems. Money talks, and money sets the agenda.

[Manic_Episode]

Perhaps this will tone him down a bit, but I doubt it.