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Tech Industry To Hollywood: Slow Down, Camper

Posted by Hemos on from the all-slow dept.

negativethirsty wrote to us with a story here at Wired, most of the tech industry heads sent a letter to the motion picture studios, with a nod towards the US Senate. Basically, the tech industry does not want SSSCA to be pased, and want to work out a "technically feasible, cost effective solution" for protecting entertainment delivered in digital form.

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  1. This is NOT in support of SSSCA by nyjx · · Score: 5, Informative

    The letter does not directly state support for passing the law - in fact it says "We have found these voluntary multi-industry standards setting efforts to be optimally effective in reaching workable market solutions." - implying that they think legislation is either unecessary or "sub-optimal". The wired article also picks up on this - somebody change the story text!.

    I very much doubt big hardware vendors would be in favor of the kind of copy protection SSSCA seems to demand - it would be very onerous to have government imposed standards here, it could create a huge black/grey market in imported "free" hardware.

    This appear to be them "showing support for the fight", not supporting "the weapon".

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  2. Senate Hearings ON SSSCA TODAY and some links.. by thumbtack · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Witness list in no particular order includes:

    Panel I
    Mr. Michael D. Eisner, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company, 500 S. Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA 91521
    Mr. Peter Chernin, President and Chief Operating Officer, News Corporation, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036
    Mr. Leslie L. Vadasz, Executive Vice President, Intel Corporation, 2200 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA 95052

    Panel II
    Mr. Andreas Bechtolsheim, General Manager/Vice President of the Gigabit Systems Business Unit, Cisco Systems Inc., 250 West Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134
    Mr. James E. Meyer, Special Advisor to the Chairman and formerly Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Thomson Multimedia, 10330 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN 46290
    Mr. Robert Perry, Vice President, Marketing, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc., 9351 Jeronimo Road, Irvine, CA 92618
    Mr. Jack Valenti, President and CEO, The Motion Picture Association of America, 15503 Ventura Boulevard, Encino, CA 91436

    Online petition against SSSCA
    The Draft of the SSSCA

  3. Re:Grammy's Speech by ArtDent · · Score: 3, Informative

    The speech was made Michael Greene, President and CEO of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and the transcript is available here.

    Content wise, there was precious little: copying music is evil; 3.6 billion songs are illegally downloaded each month; download from legal sites so artists get paid (a quarter of a penny per song, apparently).