Strange Bedfellows

August 27, 2002

What does it mean when an evil empire (like Verizon) thinks bad legislation is really evil? Does that make it super-evil? Why telecoms back the pirate cause

We oppose the Berman bill. It's very troubling in that it essentially permits one particular segment of the U.S. industry to engage in vigilantism on the Internet. So, for example, the content community could engage in denial-of-service attacks, as long as they have a reasonable belief that they were defending their copyright.