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May 26, 2013 03:41 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/dMLofYRgLz0/story01.htm
US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits, spyware, ransomware and trojans to attackpirates!
The hilariously named "Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property" has finally released its report, an 84-page tome that's pretty bonkers. But amidst all that crazy, there's a bit that stands out as particularly insane: a proposal to legalize the use of malware in order to punish people believed to be copying illegally.
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/dMLofYRgLz0/story01.htm
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