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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:52:24 +0200
From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: SSSCA?
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Brett Glass said on Oct 10, 2001 at 10:49:02:
> At 10:46 AM 10/10/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> 
> >Well yes I guess that's true.  But what's to stop them watering it
> >down so that only computers and operating systems need comply, with
> >some suitable definition of "computer" and "operating system"?  
> 
> Because it would miss many of the RIAA's targets. Remember, they want
> to outlaw portable MP3 players such as the Rio, as well as CD copiers
> such as the Philips model that lets you create "mix" CDs.

That's what they say.  The only thing they're really after is music
swapping over the internet.  As of now, you need a computer to do
that; perhaps they'll say "internet-enabled device" or something
like that instead of "computer" in their watered-down SSSCA.

R

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