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Consensus At Lawyerpoint
Seth Schoen writes "The
EFF has started
a weblog about the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group (BPDG), called "Consensus At Lawyerpoint". This is the EFF's first-ever blog, the brainchild of new EFF staffer Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing blogging fame. Consensus At Lawyerpoint covers the efforts of Hollywood -- with the complicity of consumer electronics and computer companies -- to impose
a new government mandate for copy controls in digital TV devices.
This mandate would outlaw tuner cards for digital HDTV, unless they included DRM (and prevented the end-user from getting
a cleartext recording). PVRs and VCRs might be allowed, but only
if all their outputs were encrypted. Since all TV broadcasting
in the U.S. is supposed to be digital by 2006, this could have an
enormous effect on technology and on the competition for
video standards in the marketplace. We hope that the blog format will help us get the word out and let interested people see what this group is up to." Interesting for a couple of reasons, both the subject matter (the beloved SSSCA/CBDTPA) and the method.
Now that the EFF has their own blog, they can start Google Bombing!
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Isn't "Lawyerpoint" the coolest phrase ever? I can hear the news reports now...
"7 people brutally murdered at lawyerpoint. The suspect is still on the loose, assumed armed and litigious."
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Vidmaster Steve wrote:
;)
> Bill Gates/Micheal Dell/Steve Jobs steps up to a podium. He holds out
> a plain white mouse in one hand. Then swiftly, he closes his hand upon
> it. The rodent makes a sharp, shrill sqeak that booms in the
> ampitheatre...
Steve Jobs would never do that! Mice are sacred to Mothra, due to the heroic antics of Shiro ("Mothra" 1961) and Kimi-chan ("Mothra 3: King Ghidora Attacks" 1998).
> In all seriousness, doesn't Microsoft have orders of magnitude more
> LIQUID CASH than the Movie/Record industries make per annum?
> Why don't they just crush these ninnies, remind them that their place
> is to entertain us, not create laws in which to enslave us.
Microsoft is now sitting on a DRMOS patent. Any law like the SSSCA would benefit them enormously by essentially giving their monopoly force of law. The one you can look to for help with this is Steve Jobs. When he accepted a Grammy for Apple this year, he told off the RIAA on their silly obsession over DRM. He said that 80% of the people would happily buy if they made their products convenient and affordable. Due to Apple's contributions to both the music and the movie industries, and his being the head of Pixar, Steve Jobs is the one man they might actually listen to.
If they don't listen to him, they can argue point with Typhoon #8, now equipped with a stinger. Yep, Mothra, nemesis of the MPAA and RIAA, is on her way to America, and this time, she's not alone. Baragon is quite upset to hear about our "war on terror" resulting in the destruction of wild life santuaries and "clean" coal being seen an a solution to our energy "problems". Godzilla has had it up to here ("here" being 60 meters up, his current height) with Microsoft, not to mention the US government's attempts at trivializing the use of nuclear weapons (that leaked memo). King Ghidora, well he's happy to fight with Godzilla and cause destruction.
"Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidora: Giant Monster All Out Attack" is due in American theatres possibly as early as this summer! Repent and shape up, for the end is pretty seriously nigh!