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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: MPAA wants to hack your PC, push "broadcast flag" laws
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: MPAA wants to hack your PC, push "broadcast flag" laws
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See also:
"Look out, pirates: RIAA wants to hack your
PC"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02656.html
"Rep. Howard Berman declares war on P2P networks, plans new laws"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03702.html
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http://news.com.com/2100-1023-945691.html?tag=politech
Hollywood heads up anti-piracy charge
By Declan McCullagh
July 22, 2002, 5:20 PM PT
WASHINGTON--Hollywood's lobbyists are readying a new legislative
push on Capitol Hill.
On Monday, a lawyer for the Motion Picture Association of America
said to expect new bills soon to assail illicit peer-to-peer file
trading and curtail the piracy of digital TV broadcasts.
[...]
Last month, Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., said he was writing a
bill that would allow aggrieved content owners to launch
technological attacks against file-swapping networks where their
wares are traded.
"No one in the motion picture industry has any interest in
invading your computer or doing anything malicious with your
files," said the MPAA's Attaway. "The idea is to make unauthorized
file sharing sufficiently inconvenient or at least unsuccessful."
[...]
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