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Originally posted by walktalker
Senate mulling anti-copying devices 
controversial draft bill involving security technology is returning to Congress. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation plans to hold hearings Thursday on a proposed bill that would require computer and device makers to install a government-approved anti-copying technology. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., and Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has the backing of some in the recording and movie industries, which are striving to deter digital pirates through anti-copying technology and lawsuits as well as by offering legal alternatives for online music via subscription services.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-847246.html
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The Hollywood and the RIAA would desperately like to see computers as entertainment devices designed to store, copy and play stuff whose copyrights they have managed to grab for the next hundred years. In reality the scope and the potential of personal computing and digital communications is
so much wider that a few senators - however lucratively lobbied by the entertainment industry - cannot stop the inevitable. People will get connected to each other ever cheaper and faster; the capacity and capabilities of personal computers and other digital devices will just grow; the p2p software and whatever grows out of it will just get more advanced and versatile. The times are so quickly a'changing and Jack Valenti & Hilary Rosen still don't seem to have a clue...
- tg
