This is war. Further proof that Congress represents only big business, and they're willing to shred your rights for their constituency.
The broad new legal powers proposed by a congressman - and endorsed quickly by several others - would let record and movie studios hack into Americans' personal computers to find illegally shared music and movies. They could also try to disable or interfere with file-swapping programs. It also would let industry use denial-of-service attacks - commonly launched by hackers to flood commercial Web sites - to knock personal computers offline so they can't trade copyrighted songs and films.

Does anyone else feel that Hollywood is entering into a very dangerous game here? They're messing with the personal property of a group of people who will no doubt make it their mission in life to out-hack, out-crash, and out-destroy anything that the studios can cobble together in their IT departments. It just doesn't seem like they know their enemy. It's also going to bring a cynical duality to any of the lame hacker movies they try to foist on us in the future.