[IP] Orrin Hatch the software pirate...

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:36:14 -0400
To: dave@farber.net, ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>
Subject: Orrin Hatch the software pirate...

Perhaps Orrin's computer should be blown up?

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.html



Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate?  By Leander Kahney

Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.html
11:56 AM Jun. 19, 2003 PT
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download
copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers
automatically destroyed.
But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official website,
which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the system he
proposes. 
 
The senator's site makes extensive use of a JavaScript menu system developed
by Milonic Solutions, a software company based in the United Kingdom. The
copyright-protected code has not been licensed for use on Hatch's website.
"It's an unlicensed copy," said Andy Woolley, who runs Milonic. "It's very
unfortunate for him because of those comments he made."

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