[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Senate hearing on Thursday will weigh mandatory copy controls

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

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Date sent:      	Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:26:05 -0500
From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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Subject:        	FC: Senate hearing on Thursday will weigh mandatory copy controls
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Witness list for Thursday's hearing:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.sssca.hearing.022602.html

Draft text of Sen. Hollings' SSSCA:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.090701.html

Politech SSSCA archive:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=sssca

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50702,00.html

   Digital Security Fomenting a Feud
   By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)

   2:00 a.m. Feb. 27, 2002 PST
   WASHINGTON -- 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.

   On Thursday morning, Senate Commerce chairman Fritz Hollings
   (D-South Carolina) will convene a hearing on digital copy
   protection, which he believes should be embedded in nearly all PCs
   and consumer electronic devices.

   The witness list for Thursday's event includes Walt Disney Chairman
   Michael Eisner, Intel Vice President Leslie Vadasz and Motion
   Picture Association of America President Jack Valenti.

   Hollings' spokesman, Andy Davis, says the hearing is meant to
   discuss whether the government must step in and mandate standards
   -- which Hollywood believes will allow movies to be distributed
   safely online, spur high-speed Internet access, and boost hardware
   sales. The idea is opposed by many technology firms, programmers
   and open-source devotees.

   "The technology community doesn't want any standards regardless of
   what form they take. There's an impasse that needs to be bridged if
   we want to create broadband services and increase consumer demand
   for those services," Davis said on Tuesday.

   [...]



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