Ahh...yet one step closer to that wonderful Orwellian society...

Banning NAT would be like banning the use of condoms...who's going first? Why don't we just take the locks off our front doors? Heck, leave the front door open so the thief doesn't wake you up when he opens the door. Next time you see a group of rather 'rough' looking individuals on the street corner, get out of your car, and hand them the keys to save them the trouble of running out into traffic to car jack you. That could be dangerous! Someone could get hit by a car!

Sound strange? This is the mentallity behind the DMCA and any evolution thereof. I for one don't want things to come a point where Microsoft, the government and anyone else with a copyright to be able to snoop through my computers without my knowledge or concent and without reason. The primary thing that is completely thrown out is 'probable cause'; the thing that keeps police from being able to barge into your home without a good reason.

It's good enough that there are copyright laws. We don't need legislative PC snooping. It's illegal for me to start stabbing at IP's and browes around the first PC that lets me in without a password. It should remain so for everyone else.

It's a little progress now, and it'll probably get passed. Then a year or so later, there will be more revisions to it that don't seem so bad...Fast forward 10 years, and you'll get more time in jail for having a router than you would if you got caught with a dime bag! Do we want this? Is this fair?

Pencil pushers need to keep pushing pencils--not defining _what_ a computer crime _could_ be.

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