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Originally posted by hot_pastrami
I think the point is that the RIAA wants to buy legislation to require copy-protection measures to be included with all new computers, and among those measures could be the ability to render the computer useless.
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No, you're confusing two separate measures here. No one would buy a computer with a self-destruct switch that the RIAA could activate remotely at their whim. Hatch is asking about whether it's feasible to write software that would somehow remotely destroy a computer.
The bill you're referring to, if I'm not mistaken, was defeated. It would have required any device capable of playing digital audio to have anti-piracy hardware. There was a big deal made over how it was way too broad, covering everything from MP3 players to computers to those flapping, singing fish.