Senator Pushes Bill To Limit Anti-Copying Schemes

Brushfireb writes "Republican Sen. Sam Brownback is pushing a bill that will limit the ability of record labels, movie studios and others to use anticopying technology on their products. Most notably, this is important because it states that people will be able to resell their used DVDs, along with putting a concrete limit on this behavior of DRM/anticopying schemes by the RIAA and MPAA."

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Re:6 Days of Testing?

[bmah]

Scott is trying a slightly different model for 5.1. You might have seen where we did two BETA releases earlier in May. These occupy the same places on the schedule that the first two RC snapshots did on some other releases. The idea is that the thing called 5.1-RC1 should be really really really close to what we'd ship for the release, with almost all of the bugs (that we're able to catch anyways) ironed out during 5.1-BETA1 and 5.1-BETA2. Also, 5.1-RC1 was/is released from the CVS branch to be used for the release.

Most of the process changes affect only committers (I think)...I'd expect that the only changes visible to most users would be the names of the snapshots.

Free Karma for reading the article.

[Zork the Almighty]

Forget DRM, the most important thing in this bill : requiring a judge's authorization to use the DMCA to shut down a website.