US senator promotes mass destruction of remote PCs

A PILLAR OF the US establishment yesterday said that it would be a really really good idea to remotely destroy PCs belonging to people who illegally download music from the Internet.

The suggestion, made by Utah senator Orrin Hatch, told a Senate committee that using software to break a user's PC remotely if she or he download music illegally for a third time wouldn't be such a bad idea at all.

However the good Senator realises that such a move would break anti-hacking legislation so the politicians would have to pass an exemption so that owners of copyright would be protected from those laws.

Hatch told the committee that there's no excuse for violating copyright laws.

We so agree Senator Hatch. We've noticed that several sites, including the People's Daily, has repeatedly breached our copyright. Perhaps you could use your influence to destroy its servers?

One of our readers has noticed that on your own website you are using the Milonic DHTML script.

We do hope you have a licence for the software. Because if you don't, you will clearly be breaching Milonic's conditions of use.

These say that the free terms for use includes a requisite link back to Milonic. We notice that the coders for your site, sir, have inserted this comment.

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Perhaps you would like to clarify that you do have a licence for Milonic. We think we should be told. µ