Sen. Hatch is a software pirate, website uses unlicensed code

Sen.
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright
materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically
destroyed. But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official
website, which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the
system he proposes.

"It's an unlicensed copy," said Andy Woolley, who runs
Milonic. "It's very unfortunate for him because of those comments he
made."

Hatch on Tuesday surprised a Senate hearing on
copyright issues with the suggestion that technology should be developed
to remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music
from the Net.

Hatch said damaging someone's computer "may be the
only way you can teach somebody about copyrights," the Associated Press
reported. He then suggested the technology would twice warn a computer
user about illegal online behavior, "then destroy their
computer."

On Wednesday, Hatch clarified his comments, but stuck
by the original idea. "I do not favor extreme remedies -- unless no
moderate remedies can be found," he said in a statement. "I
asked the interested industries to help us find those moderate remedies."

Just as well. Because if Hatch's terminator system
embraced software as well as music, his servers would be targeted for
destruction.