http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2069000/2069747.stm

Record makers could win the right to carry out hack attacks on music sharing services if a US proposal becomes law.

Californian congressman Howard Berman has drawn up a bill that would legalise the disruption of peer-to-peer networks by companies who are trying to stop people pirating copyrighted materials.

If his idea becomes law, record companies will be able to carry out a variety of attacks on the sharing services to make them unusable or so irritating to use that people abandon them.

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