According to this Fox News (AP) report, several congressmen, riding on a wave of big money contributions from entertainment companies, are proposing legislation that would let those companies secretly hack your computer in an effort to protect their copyrights. Their proposal would also lift civil and criminal penalties against those companies, as well as take away your right to sue them.

"A user wrongly attacked could sue only if he suffered more than $250 in economic losses and obtained permission to file a lawsuit from the U.S. attorney general" claims the AP. They also state that Rep. Howard L. Berman, D-Calif., sponser of the legislation has received at least $186,891 from entertainment companies this election cycle.