The new legislation would give the recording industry and the movie industry immunity from anti hacking laws. The proposed bill would allow any copyright holder to disable or block a computer trading their protected works on P2P networks. If this new legislation passes, it would allow copyright owners to higher hackers to protect their copyrighted works. What the hackers would do is just wrong not only will they block the distribution of copyrighted works over P2P networks but they would also be blocking everything else on that computer from being downloaded. By blocking everything from being downloaded or up loaded from a user's computer. The hackers would be infringing on a persons right to look at listen or read whatever they wish. The new bill proposed by Representative Howard Berman would also allow the music industry's hackers to do some damage to end users computers. That is completely unacceptable; this form of vigilantism would be detrimental to our technological society. There are reasons that we have police departments and government organizations like the FBI to protect us instead of vigilante justice. Government agencies and police departments have rules and regulations. Those rules protect the innocent and keep the FBI and other police agencies from abusing their power. By giving the music industry broad powers to police the internet without regulation is completely irresponsible on the part of the government.
Dirty politics has been the main force behind the RIAA attempts at new legislation. Republican Howard Coble and Howard Berman have sponsored the new bill. Berman, who proposed the bill, is congresses leading recipient of campaign contributions from the entertainment industry. This California Democrat's district includes parts of Hollywood. He has accepted about $190,000 in contributions, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Coble has received at least $36,000 from media companies and executives.