I think that this is more of a scare tactic than anything real. But according to this report, the music industry is "quietly financing the development and testing of software programs that would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who download pirated music, according to industry executives." It's not clear that the industry is on safe legal ground. "Some of this stuff is going to be illegal," said Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law School who specializes in Internet copyright issues. "It depends on if they are doing a sufficient amount of damage. The law has ways to deal with copyright infringement. Freezing people's computers is not within the scope of the copyright laws." It would certainly seem to undermine industry's position against hacking should they use such tactics as a political tool. I'm not sure they would be successful in a war against the world's best - most of whom are lined up against them - in any case.
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