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SSSCA Squirms Forward Again Thursday

Posted by timothy on from the we'll-compromise-on-half-a-cup-of-poison dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Here we go! Only temporarily tripped up by Sept. 11th (and of course journalists and webmasters calling his office), Fritz Hollings is starting hearings on embedding copy protection in all digital devices and making the removal or circumvention of these protections a crime. Hurrah for freedom!"

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  1. The money to be made by richieb · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This article appeared in NYT last weekend. The interesting thing it said that Sony makes about 4 billions per year on music sales, but about 40 billion on electronics sales (i.e. MP3 players, memory sticks, CD burners). How willing do you think would Sony be to reduce the income from consumer eletronics to satisfy their music division?

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    ...richie - It is a good day to code.
  2. SSSCA is a real danger by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Let's set aside whether we should have the right to back-up or trade intellectual property. Admittedly it's important, but I have some bigger concerns.

    The universal implementation of digital rights protection would be enormously dangerous to free speech as a whole.

    Let's just say, years in the future, World Net Daily publishes an article containing information that is very embarassing to the government. Officials want the story squelched.

    So, just register a signature for the page in the Digital Rights MAnagement system, and call it proprietary. Pooft! No one can access it. No one can email it. It's gone, for all intents and purposes, excepting for those who have broken the protection system on their hardware.