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.
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