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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Senate hearing on Thursday will weigh mandatory copy controls
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- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:11:25 +0100
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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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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