Senate Hearing Webcast Today On DMCA Subpoena Powers

An anonymous reader sends this clipping from the Senate Commerce committee website about today's hearing into "consumer privacy implications of the use of subpoena powers by copyright holders to obtain the identities of Internet subscribers allegedly infringing on their copyrights. Members also will examine whether the government can mandate content protection technologies without limiting consumers' legal uses of digital media products. Senator Brownback will preside. Tentative witness list will be available at a later time." Here's a link to both the schedule and the webcast itself; it starts at 10:00 a.m., EST.

Comments

RealPainInTheAss

[orthogonal]

Crap. The webcast requires RealPlayer.

Maybe Ashcroft wants every viewer's RealPlayer to phone home IP addresses, to later check each address for running Kazaa.

I don't think I have time to figure out which sub-sub-sub-menu of the 11 tab page RealPlayer config contains the 47 ambiguously named checkboxes that I'll have to alternately check or uncheck in order to turn off the spyware.

Re:"consumer privacy implications"

[Anonymous Coward]

Uh. Shouldn't they be safeguarding the privacy of citizens, not consumers.

Yes, but it's nicer than refering to us as sheep :)