The US entertaiment industry, and the entertaiment industry in the whole world sees piracy as a problem. Also the US congress has found out about this and several congress man have tried to find solutions to make an end to piracy.
One of them is Rep. Howard L. Berman and he proposed to 'hack' pirates and disrupt file sharing networks. His plans didn't get many positive reactions and now it seems he has changed them a little.
Critics have charged that the bill would permit Hollywood to act like hackers. It would lift civil and criminal penalties against entertainment companies for ``disabling, interfering with, blocking, diverting or otherwise impairing'' the trading of pirated songs and movies. |
Broad attacks affecting Internet users would not be permitted ``except as may be reasonably necessary'' to prevent copyright violations. Copyright owners would be required to explain in advance to the Justice Department the methods they intend to use against pirates, although the bill doesn't require approval from Justice officials.
Read the entiry story here. Now you can uninstall your firewall, don't need to worry about your XP patches anymore, a big relief !
Source: BayArea
