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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. ... 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...
  2. 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!
  3. 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*