From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 9 22:41:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F6837B405 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:41:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA03262; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:41:17 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011009233632.04baa900@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 23:41:01 -0600 To: "Jasper O'Malley" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: SSSCA? Cc: NGH , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011009224124.0447c830@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 11:32 PM 10/9/2001, Jasper O'Malley wrote: >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. They've been grudging members of the groups that did it, but their engineers don't like it and neither do their marketing people (who think it might cause consumers to avoid their products.) Intel recently backed away from serializing its Pentium chips, for example. If there's ANY consumer pressure, they'll cave completely. >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. Ah, but again, SSSCA won't pass. Legislating the design of software opens the door for Congress to put constraints on the design of Windows.... Do you think for one minute that Microsoft, with its lobbying megabucks, would risk that just to satisfy a record company or two? >What exactly will "Hollings' foolish bill" do that will scare the "big >corporations?" See above. Also, large corporations that USE software know how much pain copy protection would cost them. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message