Hacking Made Legal!! Woohoo!

[Thorazine]

Unless of course your into file sharing :(

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/07/25/copyright.reut/index.html

[Norm]

I forsee the hacking community having a field day with anybody, or organization, that hacks legally.

If that Bill passes, it'll be war lol

Sits back and waits :D

[Soporific]

There's quite a lively debate over this at Slashdot (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/25/190235&mode=thread&tid=123)

~S

[denolth2]

and they are going to have such a time figuring out who's hacking legally and not, making companies targets, too, for those that use p2p at work, then it'll be total chaos....and the time and energy spent on trying to protect against illegal hackers on top of the legal ones should prove to be interesting.....I guess it will make the firewall companies work harder for their money....and the antivirus software companies.....

and in the end it'll make the legal hackers targets, too, which is obvious, since they, too have to be on the p2p network to find out who's on there.....

what a mess.....

[Thorazine]

It seems the plot thickens. According to this Reg article, the bill's language would allow any copyright holder to attack suspected infringers. All ya have to do is send the appropriate parties a notification your doing so.

Personally I think the whole thing sounds like fun. I'll create some half-a$$ songs and charge the RIAA with distributing them illegally, then hack away at there servers.

I say let the bill pass so the chaos can ensue!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26402.html

BTW, who elected the idiot that drafted this bill?

[Ken]

Originally posted by Thorazine
BTW, who elected the idiot that drafted this bill?

It's greed...

Look at where he is from...
2+2=4... ;)

[Croc]

Originally posted by Thorazine
According to this Reg article, the bill's language would allow any copyright holder to attack suspected infringers. All ya have to do is send the appropriate parties a notification your doing so.

BTW, who elected the idiot that drafted this bill?
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Can you see Microsoft using this option? Or, how about Symantic?? Now that would be fun to watch. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Croc.

[Juggernaut]

what I don't get is how they can even allow this.

If you own the CD's aren't you allowed to have the MP3's of those songs on your computer? How can they know if you're infringing on the copyrights if you own the music yourself?

[Docsta]

w00t

--Docsta :2cool:

[C-S wanna be]

question is can we retaliate?? if so theyd be goin downs. :D

[Norm]

Permission or not, they're going to take a beating :D

[Shagster]

now we get to see who kills the other first...the good, the bad or is there an ugly?

Hack the planet

[Thorazine]

I think if I were the RIAA I wouldn't push legislation like this. I mean let's face it, attacking individual machines is one thing, but wiping out file sharing is a whole different matter. You'd have to use a packet saturation attack of some kind which could slow the internet down.

If that were to happen and it could be traced back to RIAA. Couldn't, let's say, Microsoft sue RIAA for harming their ecommerce business?