From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 9 22:32:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cornflake.nickelkid.com (www.nickelkid.com [216.116.135.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5D4C37B406 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 22:32:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by cornflake.nickelkid.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA53960; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 01:32:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jooji@cornflake.nickelkid.com) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 01:32:49 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: Brett Glass Cc: NGH , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011009224124.0447c830@localhost> Message-ID: 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 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