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FC: CBDTPA hits House: Democratic legislator readying companion bill

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:29:32 -0500 From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: politech@politechbot.com Subject: FC: CBDTPA hits House: Democratic legislator readying companion bill Send reply to: declan@well.com

Text of Rep. Adam Schiff's (D-California) "Dear Colleague" letter: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/schiff.dear.colleague.032702.html

Politech archive on CBDTPA: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51400,00.html

Another Punch for Copy Protection By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)

12:00 p.m. March 28, 2002 PST WASHINGTON -- A political brawl over mandatory copy protection is about to spread to the U.S. House of Representatives.

A Democratic legislator from the home of the Walt Disney and Warner Bros. studios is drafting a bill to reduce online piracy by implanting strict copy controls in digital devices.

On Wednesday, Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank, California, circulated a letter on Capitol Hill seeking co-sponsors for his legislation, which he said would follow the same approach as the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) in the Senate.

"I plan to introduce legislation that would safeguard digital content by spurring the rapid development of copyright protection technology," Schiff's "Dear Colleague" letter said. "Similar legislation, S. 2048, has been introduced in the Senate. I believe this is a necessary step and I encourage you to join me in this effort.

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