US Senator would destroy MP3 traders' PCs
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 18/06/2003 at 14:57 GMT
The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch (Republican, Utah), thinks it would be a fabulous idea if copyright owners could remotely destroy computers that contain pirated material, the Associated Press reports.
'I'm all for destroying their machines,' Hatch said during a Committee hearing Tuesday. ''If you have a few hundred thousand of those, I think people would realize' the seriousness of their actions,' the wire service quotes him as saying.