From the San Jose Mercury News: Senator Orrin Hatch (R, UT) — who, besides being Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a composer whose royalties were $18,000 last year from songs he’s written — says that maybe people who keep abusing copyright laws should get their computers destroyed. That kind of action “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. If that’s the only way, then I’m all for destroying their machines… There’s no excuse for anyone violating copyright laws.”
Oh, he’s got to be making more in kickbacks from the RIAA than from the proceeds of sales of his music alone. Besides, can you imagine him onstage with a mohawk and a bass guitar? There’s material for Berke Breathed …
And how do you destroy someone’s machine _without_ destroying it? Is Hatch a particle physicist as well as a musician now?
Welcome to dumbocracy where the newspeak just keeps on coming.
