full-disclosure - Destroying PCs remotely?

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Message-ID: <3EF0A2F9.3000109@thievco.com>
From: BlueBoar at thievco.com (Blue Boar)
Subject: Destroying PCs remotely?

Shawn McMahon wrote:
> You can't.  But off-the-cuff comments essentially wishing doom on
> people you don't like aren't violations of the Constitution.  When we
> make them against spammers, we view it as justifiable frustation.  When
> Hatch makes them against copyright violators, folks come out of the
> woodwork spewing venom.  Some of them, ironically, calling for the
> destruction of his PC without due process.  Hatch wasn't introducing a
> bill, he was bitching about people doing something illegal that he
> personally disagrees with, and that has a potential direct effect on him
> since he holds some copyrights.

I think a little more outrage is justified when that person's opinions have 
a decent shot at becoming law.

						BB