Chained Melodies

NoData writes: "Salon is running an elegant article that covers the current state of the copy protection and circumvention debate. The article touches on the DMCA and the SSSCA, with input from Touretzky, Lessig, and others. It offers a dystopic vision of a future where geeks battle increasingly complex copy protection schemes until ultimately, any consumer control over media is outlawed outright. Refreshingly, the article is not a "Salon Premium" feature."

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Dreadfully Scary Stuff

[Wire Tap]

Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, D-S.C., threatened to launch another bill -- the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA) -- that will mandate the inclusion of copy-protection technology in all digital devices.

For more information on this terrible proposal, check out:

http://216.110.42.179/docs/hollings.090701.html

And if you want to fight it, check out:

http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010921_eff_sssca_ale rt .html