RIAA crosses a line

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

"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, he said.

Damn, that's messed up. There are more things wrong with this plan and this way of thinking than I care to list. And silly me, I was under the impression that our legal system was to presume innocence until guilt was proven. Even more sad, I live in Utah, and this moron is my senator. At least I didn't vote for him.

And don't try to tell me that the entertainment industry isn't somehow making this crap very much worth lawmakers' time, otherwise they'd be proposing this sort of thing for problems more treacherous to society. But even if this sort of action were suggested as a measure against somethnig truly evil-- such as swapping child porn-- it would still be a Very Bad Idea. Apparently the phrase "Innocent until proven guilty" is lost on the good senator.