CNN.com – Record labels seek OK for P2P sabotage – Sep. 27, 2002
But some lawmakers worried that overzealous copyright enforcement measures could end up targeting innocent computer users, and said they did not want to encourage a high-tech game of cat and mouse that could easily get out of hand.
“What are the implications for the Internet’s functionality when the inevitable arms race develops?” asked Virginia Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher.
Boucher noted that overzealous copyright enforcers have already mistaken a photo entitled “Portrait of mrs harrison williams 1943” for a song by former Beatle George Harrison, and demanded that Internet provider UUNet terminate the account of a customer who posted a book report on Harry Potter.
Just what we need: more script-kiddies launching clumsy attacks on random systems/networks.