[Infowarrior] - Spyware bill cloaks a mini-UCITA

[Richard Forno]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Monty Solomon <monty at roscom.com>
>
> Spyware bill cloaks a mini-UCITA
>
> By Ed Foster, Section The Gripelog
> Posted on Mon Jun 16, 2008 at 01:02:19 AM PDT
>
> The holy grail for the software industry's political muscle has long
> been what in UCITA was called "electronic self help" - the right of
> software publishers to remotely disable their software on the mere
> suspicion that it hasn't been paid for. UCITA was ultimately stopped,
> but last Wednesday the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on a
> bill that nominally is supposed to fight spyware but seems intended
> to make remote disabling legal.
>
> http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2008/6/16/1219/71034