Orrin Hatch is head of new IP subcommitee

Orrin Hatch has been named the head of the new US Senate subcommittee on Intellectual Property — I guess that Genghis Kahn wasn’t available to fill the position.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), once nicknamed “Terminator” for his 2003 comment that the recording industry should be allowed to remotely destroy the computers of file-sharers, was named today to head a new Senate subcommittee on intellectual property. While Hatch backed down slightly from that comment the next day, saying, “I do not favor extreme remedies — unless no moderate remedies can be found,” he has remained a staunch ally of the entertainment industry.