The final chapter in Larry Lessig's The Future of Ideas is called What Orrin Understands and praises Senator Orrin Harch for his stance on the Napster and Microsoft cases, and specifically his concerns about concentrations of power. Senator Hatch, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is apparently now keen to give the music industry the right to remotely destroy peer to peer file sharer's computers.
"If we can find some way to do this without destroying their machines, we'd be interested in hearing about that," Hatch said. "If that's the only way, then I'm all for destroying their machines. If you have a few hundred thousand of those, I think people would realize....There's no excuse for anyone violating copyright laws." I guess Professor Lessig and Senator Hatch have reached a parting of the ways....