Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 01:32:49 -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.4.21.0110100124450.53912-100000@cornflake.nickelkid.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011009224124.0447c830@localhost>
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > Congress treats copyright law the same way it treats any other law: > the most powerful, richest interests and the biggest campaign > contributors win. And you can bet that heavy hitters such as Microsoft, > AOL, HP, Compaq, Dell, Sun, EDS, and IBM -- to name just a few -- will > oppose it. They don't want anything legislated into their products. Are you kidding me? They're *writing* the "digital rights management" software and *building* the "digital rights management" hardware, and they're forming alliances to do it. > >Ever hear of CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) > > Dead in the water. You and I wish. IBM simply withdrew the proposal to include it in the latest revision of the ATA standard. Look for it to make a speedy comeback if SSSCA is passed. > >Make no mistake about it, "they" want to control what digital content you > >get to see, hear, and read, > > Of course they do. But they won't. I'd like to think so, but it will take a concerted effort by civil libertarians and open source advocates, requiring us to actually put pen to paper and tongue to stamp. > We can lobby our representatives in Congress, but it'll do little > good. If we want results, all we have to do is make sure that the > big corporations know what Hollings' foolish bill will do... and > Poof! it'll vanish in committee. What exactly will "Hollings' foolish bill" do that will scare the "big corporations?" Cheers, Mick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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