Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-25 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > I can't imagine they would actually follow through with this though, all > it takes is one incident where they cause financial harm to someone with > an mp3 they misidentify and their highground is gone. Then again, I can't > imagine congress be

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 02:37:15PM -0700, Rowland, Alan D wrote: > > I fully agree this is Not Good (TM), hence the BAD in my response. Having > said that, satellite providers periodically 'kill' hacked access cards on > equipment in the user's home with no legal ramifications. How would this b

RE: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-25 Thread Randy Bush
> I had significant input in my life regarding the difference between "can" > and "may." IMHO significant numbers of net citizens have forgotten that > difference. therefore all of us need to give up our civil rights? the terrorists have won. randy

RE: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-25 Thread Rowland, Alan D
:57 PM To: Rowland, Alan D Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:11:00 PDT, "Rowland, Alan D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > IANAL but IMHO spewing cracked copies of say, Photoshop, or other > co

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:11:00 PDT, "Rowland, Alan D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > IANAL but IMHO spewing cracked copies of say, Photoshop, or other copyright > violations might be considered probable cause with the specific place/things > being the share program and it's contents. If your house w

RE: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-25 Thread Rowland, Alan D
__ Alan Rowland -Original Message- From: Joseph T. Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:16 PM To: Marshall Eubanks; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking I would argue that my home computer is the repos

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-25 Thread Joseph T. Klein
I would argue that my home computer is the repository of my papers and effects. No place in the below law does it limit the restriction to the government only. Indeed any law passed giving sanction to any party having the right IMHO is in direct violation of both the spiret and the letter of the

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:48:36 EDT, Petr Swedock said: > The courts. There is no possible way that this bill (as I > read it) could, in any way, be conceived as even remotely > constitutional. This is pure vigilante: the entertainment The fact that a law is unconstitutional on the face of it has

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-25 Thread Petr Swedock
Marshall Eubanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thought this would be considered on-topic as guess who would have > to clean up the resulting messes... The courts. There is no possible way that this bill (as I read it) could, in any way, be conceived as even remotely constitutional. This is pu

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-25 Thread James Thomason
> The Business Software Alliance appears to be using this technique to flush > out people distributing their Members' software via Gnutella and others. I > have received the obligatory nasty-gram advising me as the "owner" of an IP > (not taking into account the IP has been allocated and then as

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Pete Kruckenberg
The upside to this is that if you are a hacker, you can now legitimize your activities and legally protect yourself by spending $30 to incorporate as a record company. On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:40:51 -0400 > From: Marshall Eubanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Ralph Doncaster
The BSA is even flexing it's muscles here in the GWN. http://www.istop.com/BSALetter.txt Although they seem to have lots of money for scanning services and lawyers, they expect ISPs to provide services (assisting them enforce their copyrights) for free. Ralph Doncaster principal, IStop.com

RE: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread blitz
if >it comes down to the stability of my network vs. receiving their >traffic. > >Derek >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of >James Thomason >Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:10 PM >To: Marshall Eubanks >Cc: [EM

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Michael Smith
On 7/24/02 11:31 AM, "Adam Rothschild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2002-07-24-14:10:00, James Thomason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If this legislation is passed, they certainly will earn Null0 on >> mine. > > Unless, of course, the RIAA, MPAA, and friends carry out their > cracking thr

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Adam Rothschild
On 2002-07-24-14:10:00, James Thomason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this legislation is passed, they certainly will earn Null0 on > mine. Unless, of course, the RIAA, MPAA, and friends carry out their cracking through throw-away dial and DSL accounts, like they purportedly use now to troll fo

RE: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Larry Rosenman
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > James Thomason > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:10 PM > To: Marshall Eubanks > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking > > > > Would malicious actions on the part of copyright h

RE: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Derek Samford
comes down to the stability of my network vs. receiving their traffic. Derek -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James Thomason Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:10 PM To: Marshall Eubanks Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Draft of Rep. Berman&#

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread James Thomason
Would malicious actions on the part of copyright holders violate the AUP of most networks? Or are service providers more willing to tolerate denial of service attacks by large corporations than say, spam? If this legislation is passed, they certainly will earn Null0 on mine. Regards, James T