Re: [dvd-discuss] Text of Sen. Hollings' revised SSSCA, now called the CBDTPA

[microlenz(at)earthlink.net]

As I stated it must be more than Geritol......

Actually, read the press statement....it's worth posting it and sending it 
everywhere you can...it's an incredible statement of how out of touch he is 
with the world.


To:             	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject:        	Re: [dvd-discuss] Text of Sen. Hollings' revised SSSCA, now 
called 
	the CBDTPA
Date sent:      	Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:26:36 -0600
From:           	Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@monsters.org>
Send reply to:  	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu

> I just got though read through the bill. It's improved a bit over the first 
> version (SSSCA). At least he's recognizing existing Copyright doctrines and 
> people rights to do some copying. But DRM requirments in virtually all digital 
> equipment is still there.
> 
> When I read one section of the bill, my first thought was that I got 
> transported to a parallel universe.
> 
> And there is a most particular passage in the bill. I's in cbdtpa-09.jpg
> 
> 15     2) any software portion of such standards is
> 
>     based on open source code
> 
> Blink, Blink. WTF? "Is that a joke? April first isn't for a couple of weeks 
> yet."
> 
> Source code will be open? I'm still scratching my head on that one. Is that a 
> bone for the Open Source world? Do they really know what they realize what 
> that will result in?
> 
> Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@monsters.org>
> 
> On one fine day, Declan McCullagh was heard to write:
> > 
> > ----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> -----
> > 
> > From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
> > Subject: FC: Text of Sen. Hollings' revised SSSCA, now called the CBDTPA
> > To: politech@politechbot.com
> > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:52:30 -0500
> > X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1
> > X-URL: Politech is at http://www.politechbot.com/
> > 
> > I've placed the text of the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television 
> > Promotion Act (CBDTPA) here:
> > http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/
> > 
> > Here's Sen. Fritz Hollings' (D-SC) statement and press release:
> > http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/hollings.cbdtpa.release.032102.html
> > 
> > Wired News article on the CBDTPA:
> > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51245,00.html
> > 
> > Here are the statements from supporters and opponents:
> > http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/mpaa.cbdtpa.release.032102.html
> > http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/riaa.cbdtpa.release.032102.html
> > http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/bsa.cspp.iti.release.032102.html
> > 
> > Politech archive on SSSCA (now, of course, called the CBDTPA):
> > http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=sssca
> > 
> > -Declan
> > 
> > 
> > 
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