Sonia Arrison on the Berman/Coble/Rosen/Valenti bill, which would give the recording and motion picture industries the right to hack your computer if they suspect you’re harboring filesharing software. Look for Senator Luddite, Fritz Hollings, to co-sponsor a sibling bill in the Senate. It baffles me how Hollywood leftists and liberal recording artists decry the influence of corporations on government, but the most obvious examples of how corporate strong-arming of, campaign contributions to and lobbying of Congress hurts consumers come from their own alleged mouthpieces — the RIAA and the MPAA. This bill legalizes digital vigilantiism.

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