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Posted by Monty Solomon on June 16, 2008, 8:21 pm
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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
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