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[FYI] Senator pulls support for copyright bill



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Senator pulls support for copyright bill  

By Declan McCullagh  

Staff Writer, CNET News.com 

September 5, 2002, 5:01 PM PT  

A key Republican senator on Thursday withdrew his support for an anti-
piracy bill that would make it a crime to distribute counterfeit 
authentication features including digital watermarks.  

Sen. George Allen, R-Va., said he could no longer support a proposal 
titled Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002 because of changes that 
came just before a committee voted in July to send it to the Senate 
floor.  

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