SSSCA Introduced in Senate

Peter BG Shoemaker writes: "Wired is reporting that Hollings has officially submitted his newly renamed SSSCA, carrying the moniker Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA). It carries all the provisions we've been worrying about...there is a new battlefield folks..." Newsbytes has another story. Reuters has a story about News Corporation and Disney lobbying in support of the bill. I haven't seen the exact text of the bill as introduced; it will probably be in Thomas tomorrow. Update: 03/22 00:12 GMT by M : Declan McCullagh has collected several documents pertaining to the SSSCA, errr, CBDTPA. He's got a faxed copy of the bill (barely legible; read it on Thomas tomorrow), plus statements from Hollings (read it!), the MPAA, the RIAA, and several lobbying groups for the tech industry, who seem less enthralled about it.

Comments

Re:Slashcode's HTML vs. Microsoft HTML

[krisbrockway]

Well, maybe you were looking at a different W3C standard than I was. When I threw Microsoft.com and MSN.com into that validator, they sure didn't validate. Microsoft.com came up with a fatal error, even, due to no document type declaration. Might want to check your claims before posting them next time...

Pro-abortion groups

[coyote-san]

There have been some (joking) "pro-abortion" groups, they stalk public areas and force unwanted abortions on protesting women. Few pro-choicers like abortions, they just feel that there are circumstances where abortions are the lessor of evils.