Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:38:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@nickelkid.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: NGH <bsd_appliance@yahoo.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110092225040.53195-100000@cornflake.nickelkid.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011009185100.0581ac60@localhost>
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > However, the chance that a law restricting software or hardware in > that way would pass is virtually nil. Are you really this naive, or have simply not paying attention to how Congress treats copyright law? Of course this piece of horseshit is going to pass, barring a massive grassroots outcry against it, with some major support from civil liberties organizations. The for-profit hardware and software giants are tripping all over themselves to implement something like this! Ever hear of CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media), and how hard IBM, Intel, Toshiba, and Matsushita are pushing to have it included in the ATA standard? How about the DMCA, and the industry giants that supported it? Make no mistake about it, "they" want to control what digital content you get to see, hear, and read, "they" do, in fact, care what operating system you run at home. I heard on NPR a little while ago that recording industry groups are suing over cellphone "ring tones" that sound like copyrighted musical recordings, claiming that the industry has lost "millions" in revenue due to their existence. If no one does anything about the SSSCA and it actually makes it to the floor of the Senate and/or House, FreeBSD, Linux, etc. *will* be outlawed, and it will be a long god damned battle in the courts and back in Congress to undo the damage. Cheers, Mick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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