This entry, written on March 27, 2004, was recently found in my “drafts” folder.
It’s so reassuring to see an American senator weilding his political power in the name of the downtrodden wealthy, and defending Americans from the threat of the evil file-sharers, who are of course all pornographers of the worst kind. (Self-described musician and) US Senator Orrin Hatch equates the people and technology that permits that sharing of files between computers with the exploitation of children and pornography. God help you if you have allowed a file to be copied from one machine to another. Evil! You are evil, all!!
Unscrupulous corporations could distribute to children and students a “piracy machine” designed to tempt them to engage in copyright piracy or pornography distribution.