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The Politicians Are Getting Involved - Stop Them

The NY Times reported the following in today's (3/14) paper:

The draft of the bill that Senator Hollings (D - S. Carolina) plans to propose prohibits creating, selling or distributing "any interactive digital device that does not include and utilize certified security technologies."
The Hollywood media conglomerates, led by Disney (the same folks who wanted to replace Koppel w/ Letterman), are pressing Congress to enact stringent anti-digital copying laws. If you are a voting age American citizen, then as an interested party, please contact your legislator and express your side of the story.

"(those who) allow themselves to become nothing, will have no place on this earth." - V.S. Naipaul

Onhwy61 (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

03-14-02

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03-14-02 Onhwy61: excellent idea. i've been following this sorry sa ... Cornfedboy

03-14-02 Yes, thing are getting extreme -for no reason. it would be ... Dweller

03-14-02 This goes back to the old, old saying. it rings truer today ... Kinsekd

03-14-02 '61; i've been thinking about this all day. do you, cfb or ... Garfish

03-15-02: Onhwy61
This is the link to the NYT article. (Note: you may have to register w/ NYT to access the article.) It gives a good overview of the situation.

The main issues to me are copy protection and recording quality. I want to ability to digitally copy any CD that I have purchased to my computer hard disk. My computer (yes, it's a Mac) hard drive is my primary digital playback source. I then use the computer to generate compilation CD-Rs for use in my car. My current practices are perfectly legal under the existing fair use doctrine. The record companies also insist that their anti-copy schemes do not degrade sound quality. This not a credible statement. It may be possible that an average listener on an average $500 system may not be able to hear the distortions introduced by anti-copy programs, but I doubt this applies to a discerning listener with a high-end system.
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03-15-02 For more information on this subject visit http://www.hrrc ... Onhwy61

03-15-02 Thanks '61. i think i can cobble together some verbiage to ... Garfish

03-15-02 I say we all pitch in together and buy every one of those po ... Albertporter

03-15-02 Kinsekd, i believe that's generally credited to mark twain. ... Killerpiglet

03-15-02 Killerpiglet, do you know the difference between a catfish a ... Albertporter

03-15-02 How's this, from e.e. cummings (an entire poem): a politici ... Cornfedboy