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Tech Firms Fight Copy Protection Laws

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the taking-the-power-back dept.

buulu writes "CNET is running an article about Alliance For Digital Progress going on the offensive against Hollywood over digital copy protection. The alliance consists of some of the big names: Apple, Cisco Systems, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Information Technology Association of America, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, etc."

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  1. Wait, did i see by Silvers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft on that list?

  2. ... and in other news... by TWX_the_Linux_Zealot · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... Another group has stepped up in the fight against the MPAA and DCMA copy protection. Members include Gateway, Commodore Business Machines, Data General, Sun Microsystems, the Church of Latter Day Saints General Motors, Verizon Wireless, the Dhali Llama, the Vatican, and unlikliest of all the MPAA, according to their web site. Based on the MPAA's use of Microsoft Internet Information Server, their entry into this group is unconfirmed. Still on the fence is the Church of Scientology, who have yet to decide if it's in their best interests to side with the DCMA, or with the anti-copy protection group.

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    IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
    And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
  3. The Alliance's platform: by BitwizeGHC · · Score: 5, Funny

    "OK, OK, we'll cave in and put DRM chips in every device we sell, just please, pretty please, don't tell Congress on us!"

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    N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
  4. Re:So, these consortia... by DwarfGoanna · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yes, they give me (and I imagine many other slashdotters) bleeding fucking ulcers.

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  5. Re:Good or Bad? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    The article brings out that...

    Sir, this is Slashdot.

    I must please ask you to refrain from actually reading the article as facts tend to hinder the MS/HP/Motorola/Dell/Whatever bashers out there that are getting worked up as we speak.

    Now please write a 100 times "The penguin is my friend, trust the penguin."
  6. Pot, kettle. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hewlett-Packard?

    "You guys don't want people to copy your content, cutting you out of money. Tough luck with that."

    Maybe Hollywood should return with, "You guys don't want people refilling their ink cartridges, cutting you out of money. Tough luck with that."

    *snort*

  7. Fred McClure by raehl · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hi, I'm Fred McClure. You may remember brother Troy from such films as 'Election: For Purchase' and 'The House: Con Games', and me from such policy positions as 'Herbert Walker's Right Hand' and 'The Winston Policy Group'. I'm here to tell you about protecting your rights with the new and improved 'Alliance for Digital Progress'. Act now and buy one CD burner and get all the music you want for free!"

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    paintball
  8. Valenti of MPAA by jsse · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We are not the enemy. We are not at war with the IT community. We are hoping that (future) meetings will produce amiable results..."

    Valenti said, then rotated his head 180 degree, mummered in someone else's voice:
    "If you only knew the power of the darkside..."

  9. Valenti hates this--best endorsement yet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Valenti hates this alliance. That's the best endorsement I've seen yet!