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Senate Judiciary Committee Copyright Page
leviramsey writes: "The Senate Judiciary Committee has posted a website dealing with Copyright law, especially with respect to the Internet. Hearing transcripts are posted, as are relevant laws. A comment form is provided. They do not want anonymous comments, so that they may publish them later."
It's a fairly simple concept:
You can't solve social problems using technological solutions.
You mentioned that anti-copying software must be closed-source. Yet S.2048 (CBDTPA) specifically requires any anti-copying software be open source. (3)(d)(2) Of course, I'm still opposed to the bill (mostly because a simple hard drive could be considered a "digital media device" under the bill. But the closed-source argument won't help in this case.
Any sufficiently advanced civilization is indistinguishable from Gods.
The documents linked from the page mentioned are not Congressional Hearing transcripts but submitted statements.
Sometimes these statements are read at the hearing, but sometimes they are just entered in the record and the congressperson or expert witness says little or expounds on the points in the statement.
After statements, there's a question & answer period. That's when the good stuff usually happens & it's only reflected in the transcripts.
The latest Sentate Judiciary and Commerce Committee hearings on the CBDTPA (sih-bid-tihp-ah?) & related issues have not been posted to GPO Access yet.
Judiciary (Leahy): "Competition, Innovation, and Public Policy in the Digital Age: Is the Marketplace Working to Protect Digital Creative Works?" held 3/14/2002, Commerce (Hollings): "Protecting Content in a Digital Age--Promoting Broadband and the Digital Television Transition" held 2/28/2002.
Earlier hearings do have transcripts posted, though. Compare "Online Entertainment: Coming Soon to a Digital Device Near You" submitted statements vs. transcript
The q&a in the transcript looks like it's either written communication from before the hearing or a heavily edited version of what was said. I have the audio from Hollings hearing, so when the transcript comes out, I'll check its accuracy.
the link to the statements for that particular hearing from the Judiciary page is wrong, but mine is right. I've let them know