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[DMCA_discuss] Senator plans anti-piracy bill

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Interesting post from another list. What do you guys think about this?

>
> Senator plans anti-piracy copyright legislation:
>
> Consumer electronics hardware makers, including computer
> manufacturers, would be required to develop anti-piracy technology
> to be included in their products under proposed legislation from
> Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C.
>
> http://currents.net/news/01/08/28/news2.html
>
>http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib/N00002423.htm
>
>ERNEST F. HOLLINGS (D-SC)
>Top Contributors
>
>2  Time Warner  $33,500
>6  News Corp  $28,224
>11  National Assn of Broadcasters  $22,000
>16  Walt Disney Co  $18,500
>
>
>ERNEST F. HOLLINGS (D-SC)
>Top Industries
>
>1  Lawyers/Law Firms  $1,215,300
>2  TV/Movies/Music  $287,534
>
> http://www.anti-dmca.org
>
>

>>What is at stake here is not the extension of copyright holders'
>>powers. No, what is at stake here is private ownership of computers.
>>
>>This proposed "anti-piracy" hardware is not anti-copyright
>>infringement hardware.  It is universal spyware.  A few meg of which
>>placed inside every home and small office machine will end private
>>ownership of computers.
>>
>>oo--JS.

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