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"The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) would also wreak havoc on programmers and software companies -- both those distributing code for free and those selling it." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
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"Yesterday we mentioned the fact that Senator 'Disney Pays My Bills' Hollings had finally introduced the awful CBDTPA bill. It's (not surprisingly) being talked about everywhere, but Wired has a good article explaining why the bill would cause tremendous harm to the US tech world." News and reader discussion. [Techdirt]
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"Sen. Fritz Hollings has fired the first shot in the next legal battle over Internet piracy." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
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Senator Brutalizes Intel Rep for Resisting CPRM
"Entertainment industry lapdog Senator Fritz Hollings (Democrat, South Carolina) lashed out at Intel executive VP Leslie Vadasz who warned that the copy-protected PCs Hollings is obediantly promoting on behalf of his MPAA and RIAA handlers would stifle growth in the marketplace." By Thomas C Greene. [Register]
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"A Senate Bill will likely force the issue of adding copy protection to hardware." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
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Digital Security Fomenting a Feud
"A Senate committee is stepping into the middle of an increasingly vocal spat over the future of technology: how to prevent illicit copying of digital content." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
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SSSCA Squirms Forward Again Thursday
"Only temporarily tripped up by Sept. 11th (and of course journalists and webmasters calling his office), Fritz Hollings is starting hearings on embedding copy protection in all digital devices and making the removal or circumvention of these protections a crime." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
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High-Tech: U.S. Out of Hollywood
"America's largest and most powerful tech firms have agreed on one point: Keep Congress far away from digital content standards." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
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SSSCA Hearings Postponed Under Heavy Opposition
"Senate Commerce Committee's hearings on the SSSCA have been postponed due to mounting opposition, particularly from those in the tech community." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
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Tech Heavyweights and the SSSCA
"The Computer Systems Policy Project, a trade group which includes IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Compaq, Dell, and Motorola, has officially stated their opposition to the SSSCA, calling it 'an unwarranted intrusion by the government.'" News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
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"The U.S. House of Representatives doesn't seem willing to intercede in an increasingly bitter dispute over embedding copy protection controls in all consumer electronic devices." By Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate. [Wired]
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Contact Your Senator and Rep About The SSSCA
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an Action Alert on the SSSCA along with a sample letter." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
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Content Spat Split on Party Lines
"A Senate debate over embedding copy protection controls in all consumer electronic devices took a sharply partisan turn on Thursday." By Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate. [Wired]
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SSSCA Hearing October 25th: Free Software Threatened
News and reader comments about Senate Commerce Committee hearing. [Slashdot]
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SSSCA Gets a Hearing Oct. 25 -- Can It Be Stopped?
"Senator Fritz Hollings will testify about his proposed SSSCA legislation before the Senate Commerce Committee on October 25." By Tina Gasperson. Reader comments. [NewsForge]
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