I read this artical just today.....scary.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D7RNPU600.html or
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...-2003Jun17.html
(link should work now)

Senator Hatch :
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday he favors developing new technology to remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music from the Internet.
Altough:
Legal experts have said any such attack would violate federal anti-hacking laws.
And:
"No one is interested in destroying anyone's computer," replied Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles company that builds technology to disrupt music downloads.

"I'm interested," Hatch interrupted.
Then:
Orin Kerr, a former Justice Department cybercrimes prosecutor and associate professor at George Washington University law school.
Kerr predicted it was "extremely unlikely" for Congress to approve a hacking exemption for copyright owners, partly because of risks of collateral damage when innocent users might be wrongly targeted.
"It wouldn't work," Kerr said. "There's no way of limiting the damage."
If congress passes such a law, where will it end. After rewiting the federal anti hacking laws, allowing legal hacks to distroy a private persons property.......what is next, un-licenced linux users?
Anyone see anything good in this?
Moxnix
PS> or bad of course.