[crochico]

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

The senator, a composer who earned $18,000 last year in songwriting royalties

"There's no excuse for anyone violating copyright laws," Hatch said.

so basically this old-fart senator, i've hated him ever since i was a little child, wants to protect his own ass and make sure royalties keep coming into his wallet for songs he's written, which most of us never heard, will never download nor will ever care to download... if we were to continue using his rationale to deal with "piracy and theft", would we would bomb anyone's house that is equipped with illegal satelite?.. well, there goes 70% of my neighborhood