Yahoo! News – Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading

“I’m interested,” Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone’s computer “may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights.”

The senator, a composer who earned $18,000 last year in song writing royalties, acknowledged Congress would have to enact an exemption for copyright owners from liability for damaging computers. He endorsed technology that would twice warn a computer user about illegal online behavior, “then destroy their computer.”

Great, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee is advocating vigilante justice.

I don’t envy France. Their peacekeeping mission in the Congo puts them in the unfortunate position of dealing with rival armies composed of significant proportions of child soldiers.