First the Boston Globe breaks the story, yesterday, of how GOP leaders were able to hack a computer belonging to Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committe — a story which I’m hoping will be referred to as “Watergategate” (that is if other news sources even cover it) — and now, today, the Globe is updating the story.It turns out The so-called Committee for Justice
has found “that no rules or laws were broken by Republican staffers who exploited a computer glitch on a shared server that allowed them to access memos written by their Democratic counterparts without having to enter a password.”So there you go. Not only is it perfectly acceptable to download and distribute files that don’t belong to you, but you can do so without the original owner’s permission. So the RIAA and MPAA can piss off — our leaders have said so! It’s open season on digital media folks! Free Carmine Caridi!
