From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 9 11:52: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24EAB37B403 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 11:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-209.247.137.25.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.247.137.25] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #2) id 15r1z0-0003VY-00; Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:52:02 -0700 Message-ID: <3BC34784.4D56D9DF@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:52:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Unhappy Adobe Customer Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSSCA? References: <20011008193423.77229.qmail@web11901.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Unhappy Adobe Customer wrote: > What do you folks think about the "draft" SSSCA? For those of > you who haven't heard, Disney and some entertainment > conglomerates think all digital electronics and software > should be forced to contain copyright enforcement. They've > come up with this ridiculous draft where "trafficking" in > non-compliant devices is punished by 5 years in prison (as if > computer software is narcotics). If this passes, I think it > could essentially outlaw "free software", "open source" or > whatever you want to call it. Even if this isn't done by law, > getting software support for crippled hardware may be all but > impossible. What do you think? I pos facto. (Translation: you can't make something illegal after the fact). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message