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Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate?
11:56 AM Jun. 19, 2003 PT
wired.com

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.
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[LordOpie]

he's frustrated and desperate. any *software* they make would be hacked within a week.

 

[slein]

just make people pay for technical support. like, BILL GATES is worth how much?

next they'll be saying that i gotta pay for something that shows up in my back yard... like satellite TV

 

[Spud]

Whoops. I'd love to hear their official response...