Wired — The Dark Side of Hacking Bill

“Contrary to widespread, if uninformed speculation, our legislation is narrowly crafted, with strict bounds on acceptable behavior by the copyright owner,” Berman said in a statement. “It gives copyright creators a very limited safe harbor from liability when they use technological tools for the narrow purpose of thwarting P2P piracy. It does not allow copyright owners to send viruses through P2P networks, destroy files, hack into the personal files of P2P users, or indiscriminately block lawful file-trading.”
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“Will having a firewall — or implementing strong system security practices or being a good system administrator — become illegal and prosecuted as circumventing copyright controls under the existing Digital Millennium Copyright Act?”