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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."

9 of 214 comments (clear)

  1. RIAA/MPAA Sux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Check me out fool...

    http://www.puma.dpg.devry.edu/~markvd

  2. fp? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1 2 3 4 fp

  3. Fist prost virgin. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So this is how it feels...

  4. I wonder how it feels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to have FP!!!

    1. Re:I wonder how it feels by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I guess I won't know for a while.

  5. The 60 plus association ??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They must represent *BSD or something?

  6. IN SOVIET RUSSIA... by Lethyos · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Tech companies with copy protection fight YOU!

    (Wait a min... Shit, again!?)

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    Why bother.
  7. CBDTPA by geekasaurus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I guess that some version of CBDTPA could be introduced, but the landscape has changed some (it's not certain how much). First and foremost, Fritz ("Hollywood Whore") Hollings no longer chairs the committee - that's now McClain. How that plays out .... we'll see. Meanwhile, "HW" is still on the committee (AFAIK), but with far less power. Hollywood should have learned by now that when you hire a whore with a long term contract, you should make sure (s)he can go the distance. All in all, it's probably good to see opposition groups arising, even accepting that some members may have their own (equally noxious) agendas. After all, playing both sides against the middle is a proud and effective tradition.
    I guess we'll see where it all leads.

  8. Mod Up Pleeeeeze (n/t) by LittleBigLui · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no text

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