[FYI] Copy-control Senator sleeps while fair-use rights burn

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21828.html

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Copy-control Senator sleeps while fair-use rights burn  

By Jack Bryar, NewsForge.com  

Posted: 22/09/2001 at 00:04 GMT  

Picture a future where distributing Linux is a crime punishable by a 
hefty fine and a prison sentence. If that sounds ridiculous, then you 
haven't run into the Security Systems Standards and Certification 
Act. It's the very latest - and most bizarre - word in political back-
scratching from one of South Carolina's U.S. senators. And he'd 
rather not talk about it, thank you very much.  

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