[FYI] (Fwd) FC: MPAA wants to hack your PC, push "broadcast flag" laws

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

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Date sent:      	Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:46:24 -0400
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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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