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Illegally download copyright music from the Internet once, or even twice, and you get a warning. Do it a third time, and your computer gets destroyed. That's the suggestion made by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) at a Tuesday hearing on copyright abuse, reflecting a growing frustration in Congress over failure of the technology and entertainment industries to protect copyrights in a digital age. The surprise statement by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that he favors developing technology to remotely destroy computers used for illegal downloads represents a dramatic escalation in the increasingly contentious rhetoric over pirated music. During a discussion of methods to frustrate computer users who illegally exchange music and movie files over the Internet, Hatch asked technology executives about ways to damage computers involved in such file trading. Legal experts have said any such attack would violate federal anti-hacking laws. "No one is interested in destroying anyone's computer," replied Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles company that builds technology to deliberately download pirated material very slowly so other users can't. "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." "If we can find some way to do this without destroying their machines, we'd be interested in hearing about that," Hatch said. "If that's the only way, then I'm all for destroying their machines. If you have a few hundred thousand of those, I think people would realize" the seriousness of their actions. "There's no excuse for anyone violating copyright laws," Hatch said. Some legal experts suggested Hatch's provocative remarks were more likely intended to compel technology and music executives to work faster toward ways to protect copyrights online than to signal forthcoming legislation. "It's just the frustration of those who are looking at enforcing laws that are proving very hard to enforce," said Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor and former Justice Department (news - web sites) cybercrimes prosecutor. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the committee's senior Democrat, later said the problem is serious but called Hatch's suggestion too drastic. "The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some Draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve," Leahy said in a statement. "We need to work together to find the right answers, and this is not one of them." Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., urged Hatch to reconsider. Because Hatch is Judiciary chairman, "we all take those views very seriously," he said. But Kerr said Congress was unlikely to approve any bill to enable such remote computer destruction by copyright owners "because innocent users might be wrongly targeted." A spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites), Jonathan Lamy, said Hatch was "apparently making a metaphorical point that if peer-to-peer networks don't take reasonable steps to prevent massive copyright infringement on the systems they create, Congress may be forced to consider stronger measures." The RIAA represents the major music labels. The entertainment industry has gradually escalated its fight against Internet file-traders, targeting the most egregious pirates with civil lawsuits. The RIAA recently won a federal court decision making it significantly easier to identify and track consumers — even those hiding behind aliases — using popular Internet file-sharing software.

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WE have a PA sighting!!! I will take Joe Crede, that's right.

You gotta burn me a copy man!

Encarnacion always struck me as a Carlos Leelike player. Tons of potential and having a hard time living up to it.

The kid is 18 years old, they won't know that for years.

Just tell them this joke... Sammy Sosa!

http://www.msnbc.com/news/926772.asp?0cv=CA01

I had one last chance to get them and it fell through.

Brian Daubach would have won it with his solo HR, but no one picked him. Then there was a 3 way tie of players with 4 points each; Frank, D'Angelo, and Maggs. Both Frank and Jimenez had two K's and lost the tie breaker to Maggs. Pickers of Maggs were me, Roman, Soxheads, and Texsox.

Oh, I had no idea he wanted to move the team. That was before I ever paid attention to any of the off field stuff. I was 6 during the 1980 season!

Well I will overlook the fact you just called me Alex... but send emails to southsider2k2@hotmail.com

Eddie Debartalo wanted to buy the Sox? Wow how much different history could have been!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor.../170/4f8qf.html

They had better make sure both the Royals and Eric Cooper aren't in town! Actually I don't see it on the give away list at all?

Comparing him and Willie Harris who do you think is faster? Do you think Yan has enough hitting ablitity to be able to use his speed at the ML level? Or is he another Chad Durham type who will never make it?

thank you pa, i appreciate it. I had only made about 100 posts on the board, before the conference call fiasco. I am leaving for basic in less than 3 weeks. I am looking forward to it. I just want to get my ass kicked and get it over with. Hey Bev, keep in touch. Take my email if you like or just post here whenever you get the chance. It is so sad to see one of our own all grown up and becoming a man... Anytime you need an escape from the hellish drill instructor or just a touch of home let us know!

Yan got his 39th steal? That is 13 more than the whole parent club combined!

If we could get Fossum or Nixon and Sanchez (him being the key) for Colon I would do it. We could even build a bigger deal out of it if they wanted to get Gordon also. I don't know much about the Red Sox system past those couple of prospects though. Maybe a 3 way deal including the Marlins to unload some salary could be worked out.

Anyone

Pauly still better watch out, he is going to get smoked

Any idea what the trade market it for Colon? As it stands now if he walks away after this year we get two first round picks for him, and if what we traded for him is any indication of what is worth is right now, I would rather take the draft picks.

I found out yesterday that I wasn't going.

:fyou Did you find out anything about the 4th yet?