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"A Senate Bill will likely force the issue of adding copy protection to hardware." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]

• Howling Mad Over Hollings' Bill - "Jim Dinda\\'s apartment is a high-tech entertainment haven, but that consumer broadband and digital television promotion act could change if a bill that restricts how electronics devices consumer broadband and digital television promotion act work is passed into law." By Brad King. [Wired]
• Senator Fritz Hollings (D-Disney) Avoids Talking about SSSCA - "Picture a future where distributing Linux is a copyrights crime punishable news and media by a hefty fine and a copyrights prison sentence. If that news and media sounds ridiculous, then you copyrights haven\\'t run into the Security Systems news and media Standards and copyrights Certification Act." By Dan Berkes. Reader comments. [
• SSSCA Hearing October 25th: Free Software Threatened - News and reader comments about Senate Commerce Committee copyrights hearing. [Slashdot]
• Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders - "The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) would also wreak havoc on programmers and software companies -- both those distributing code for free and those selling it." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• Republicans Should Back Recording Artists, Consumers - Editorial criticizing Senator Fritz Holling and Democrats for siding with copyrights the entertainment industry and against consumers. By Glenn Harlan Reynolds. copyrights [Fox News]
• In-Depth on the CBDTPA - "How misguided and potentially disastrous is the CBDTPA? copyrights Let me consumer broadband and digital television promotion act count the ways." Editorial and reader copyrights discussion. [kuro5hin]
• Senator Brutalizes Intel Rep for Resisting CPRM - "Entertainment industry lapdog Senator Fritz Hollings (Democrat, South copyrights Carolina) lashed consumer broadband and digital television promotion act out at Intel executive VP Leslie copyrights Vadasz who warned that consumer broadband and digital television promotion act the copy-protected PCs Hollings copyrights is obediantly promoting on behalf of consumer broadband and digital television promotion act his MPAA copyrights and RIAA handlers would stif
• Forget DMCA, the New Nemesis 'SSSCA' - "It seems we truly have a complete take news and media over of the legislative process spearheaded by Hollywood news and media pressure, for the second time." News and reader news and media discussion. [kuro5hin]
• More Details on the CBDTPA - Information about where to find transcribed text and Web form for submitting comments to Senate Judiciary Committee. Reader discussion. [Slashdot]
• Senate Soliciting Comments on SSSCA - The US Senate Judiciary Committee website has a link requsting copyrights comments on DRM and the SSSCA. With reader discussion. [Slashdot]
• Tech Heavyweights and the SSSCA - "The Computer Systems Policy Project, a trade group which includes consumer broadband and digital television promotion act IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Compaq, Dell, and Motorola, has officially stated consumer broadband and digital television promotion act their opposition to the SSSCA, calling it \\'an unwarranted intrusion consumer broadband and digital television promotion act by the government.'" News and reader
• SSSCA Introduced in Senate - "Wired is reporting that Hollings has officially submitted news and media news and media his newly renamed SSSCA, carrying the moniker Consumer news and media news and media Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA)." News news and media news and media and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
• House Cool to Copy Protection - "The U.S. House of Representatives doesn\\'t seem willing news and media to intercede in an increasingly bitter dispute over news and media embedding copy protection controls in all consumer electronic news and media devices." By Declan McCullagh and Robert Zarate. [Wired]
• Proposed Anti-Piracy Bill Braws Fire - "Government and industry leaders say lawmakers would in copyrights effect decide news and media the tech industry\\'s \\'winners and losers\\' copyrights if proposed government controls news and media on digital media devices copyrights become reality." By Stefanie Olson. [CNet]
• Digital Security Fomenting a Feud - "A Senate committee is stepping into the middle copyrights of an increasingly vocal spat over the future copyrights of technology: how to prevent illicit copying of copyrights digital content." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• Copy-control Senator Sleeps While Fair-use Rights Burn - "Picture a future where distributing Linux is a news and media crime punishable by a hefty fine and a news and media prison sentence. If that sounds ridiculous, then you news and media haven\\'t run into the Security Systems Standards and news and media Certification Act." By Dan Berkes. [Newsforge]
• Industry Divided Over SSSCA - Discussion of EE Times story about the SSSCA and how copyrights it divides the industry. [Slashdot]
• Open Source Advocates May Find Opposing Hollings Bill Makes for Strange Bedfellows - "It is taking a while, but Open Source opponents to copyrights Senator Fritz Hollings\\' newest anti-copying legislation are starting to get copyrights traction -- with a lot of help from a variety copyrights of big business types." By Jack Bryar. [Linux.com]
• Copy Protection Bill Divides Industry, Hollywood - "A draft copy-protection bill backed by Hollywood heavyweights copyrights is triggering news and media an outcry from PC and consumer copyrights electronics companies who say news and media the legislation would force copyrights them to relinquish control of key news and media system design copyrights technologies." By Junko Yoshida
• Further Analysis of the Draft SSSCA - The SSSCA raises artificial barriers to market entry copyrights and have the opposite effect intended by the copyrights creation of copyright. [kuro5hin]
• More On Why The CBDTPA Sucks - "Yesterday we mentioned the fact that Senator \\'Disney copyrights Pays My consumer broadband and digital television promotion act Bills\\' Hollings had finally introduced the copyrights awful CBDTPA bill. It\\'s consumer broadband and digital television promotion act (not surprisingly) being talked copyrights about everywhere, but Wired has a consumer broadband and digital television promotion act good article copyrights explaining why the bill would cause tremen
• Content Spat Split on Party Lines - "A Senate debate over embedding copy protection controls consumer broadband and consumer broadband and digital television promotion act digital television promotion act in all consumer electronic devices took a consumer broadband and digital television promotion act sharply consumer broadband and digital television promotion act partisan turn on consumer broadband and digital television promotion act Thursday." By Declan McCullagh and consumer broadband and digital television promotion consumer broadband and digital television promotion act act Robert Zarate. [Wired]
• SSSCA Squirms Forward Again Thursday - "Only temporarily tripped up by Sept. 11th (and of course consumer broadband and digital television promotion act journalists and webmasters calling his office), Fritz Hollings is starting consumer broadband and digital television promotion act hearings on embedding copy protection in all digital devices and consumer broadband and digital television promotion act making the removal or circumvention of these protect
• Politech: Everyone Hates SSSCA, CBDPTA in Comments to Senate Judicary Panel - Four public comments in opposition to the CBDTPA, consumer broadband and consumer broadband and digital television promotion act digital television promotion act submitted to the Senate Judiciary.
• CBDTPA Finds A Champion In the House - "House member Adam Schiff of Burbank is seeking news and media news and media a co-sponsor for his House version of Hollings\\' news and media news and media CBDTPA." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
• Anti-Piracy Bill Finally Sees Senate - "A controversial bill calling for copyright-protection technology in consumer broadband and copyrights digital television promotion act all \\'digital media products\\' is introduced in copyrights the consumer broadband and digital television promotion act Senate." By John copyrights Borland. [CNet]
• Congress Plans DMCA Sequel: The SSSCA - "The sequel is called the \\'Security Systems Standards news and media consumer broadband and digital television promotion act and Certification Act,\\' and it requires PCs and news and media consumer broadband and digital television promotion act consumer electronic devices to support \\'certified security technologies\\' news and media consumer broadband and digital television promotion act to be approved by the Commerce Department." News news and media consumer broadband and digital television promotion act and reader discussion
• SSSCA Hearings Postponed Under Heavy Opposition - "Senate Commerce Committee\\'s hearings on the SSSCA have consumer broadband and copyrights digital television promotion act been postponed due to mounting opposition, particularly copyrights from consumer broadband and digital television promotion act those in the copyrights tech community." News and reader consumer broadband and digital television promotion copyrights act discussion. [Slashdot]
• D.C. Anti-Piracy Plans Fuel Culture Clash - "The media industry is painting tech executives as consumer broadband and news and media digital television promotion act uncooperative and uncommitted to the cause of news and media copy consumer broadband and digital television promotion act protection, a charge news and media that has drawn protests--and now consumer broadband and digital television promotion news and media act action--from device manufacturers." By John Borland. [CNet]
• Seeking Arguments Against the CBDTPA? - Poster asks for arguments to use when talking copyrights to their senator. Reader discussion. [Slashdot]
• Jolly New Threat to Our Freedoms - Editorial by columnist Jon Carroll making an analogy consumer broadband and digital television promotion act to legally mandated retinal scanners in books so consumer broadband and digital television promotion act that only the original purchaser can read them. consumer broadband and digital television promotion act [San Francisco Chronicle]
• Another Punch for Copy Protection - "A political brawl over mandatory copy protection is consumer broadband and consumer broadband and digital television promotion act digital television promotion act about to spread to the U.S. House consumer broadband and digital television promotion act of consumer broadband and digital television promotion act Representatives." By Declan consumer broadband and digital television promotion act McCullagh. [Wired]
• High-Tech: U.S. Out of Hollywood - "America\\'s largest and most powerful tech firms have consumer broadband and copyrights digital television promotion act agreed on one point: Keep Congress far copyrights away consumer broadband and digital television promotion act from digital content copyrights standards." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• Red Hat puts out Legislation Alert on the SSSCA - "Red Hat has announced a legislation alert for news and media the SSSCA. They are collecting comments to hand news and media to lawmakers." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
• What Hollings' Bill Would Do - "A bill introduced by Senate Commerce Chairman Fritz consumer broadband and news and media digital television promotion act Hollings would prohibit the sale or distribution news and media of consumer broadband and digital television promotion act nearly any technology news and media -- unless it features copy-protection consumer broadband and digital television promotion news and media act standards to be set by the federal government." consumer broadband news and media and digital television promotion act By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• Cal Senator: Hollywood Over Tech - "Sen. Dianne Feinstein may come from Northern California news and media but she\\'s siding with Hollywood instead of Silicon news and media Valley." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• Don't Buy Hollywood's Broadband Script - "In the name of copyright protection, the film copyrights industry wants consumer broadband and digital television promotion act to call all the shots in copyrights this debate, which could consumer broadband and digital television promotion act harm consumers." By Heather copyrights Green. [BusinessWeek]
• Copyright Bill Universally Rejected - Article about the overwhelming consumer opposition to the bill. [Reuters]
• SSSCA Hearing - "A Senate Bill will likely force the issue consumer broadband and news and media digital television promotion act of adding copy protection to hardware." News news and media and consumer broadband and digital television promotion act reader discussion. [Slashdot]
• New Copyright Bill Heading to DC - "Music and record industry lobbyists are quietly readying news and media news and media an all-out assault on Congress this fall in news and media news and media hopes of dramatically rewriting copyright laws." By Declan news and media news and media McCullagh. [Wired]
• Fox Explains Why SSSCA Is Bad - "Fox News is running an article that news and media consumer broadband and digital television promotion act slams Sen. Fritz Hollings (\\'The Senator from Disney\\') news and media consumer broadband and digital television promotion act and the Democrats (with the notable exception of news and media consumer broadband and digital television promotion act Rick Boucher) as having betrayed their principles." News news and media consumer broadband and digital television promotion act and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
• Senator Hollings and the SSSCA - Discussion of NewsForge story about Senator Hollings\\' support news and media consumer broadband and digital television promotion act of SSSCA and his money coming from entertainment news and media consumer broadband and digital television promotion act industry companies, their lawyers, and their lobbyists. [Slashdot]
• SSSCA: The DMCA's Evil Twin Brother - "The music and recording industry with the help of Senator Fritz Hollings (D - S.C.), the powerful chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, are pressuring Congress to rewrite the copyright laws, in their favor." [Workisa4letterword]
• Anti-Copy Bill Hits D.C. - "Sen. Fritz Hollings has fired the first shot consumer broadband and news and media digital television promotion act in the next legal battle over Internet news and media piracy." consumer broadband and digital television promotion act By Declan McCullagh. news and media [Wired]
• Hollywood Loves Hollings' Bill - "Entertainment industry lobbyists say programmers and open-source activists news and media copyrights should not be alarmed by a controversial proposal news and media copyrights to embed copy-protection controls in nearly all PCs news and media copyrights and consumer electronic devices." By Declan McCullagh. [Wired]
• Copyright [CBDTPA] Bill Universally Rejected - Reader discussion of Reuters article about public opposition copyrights to the bill. [Slashdot]
• Contact Your Senator and Rep About The SSSCA - "The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an Action Alert on the SSSCA along with a sample letter." News and reader discussion. [Slashdot]
• Copyright May Threaten Open Source - If you think open source is free, think again. Pending legislation and some questionable reverse-engineering statutes may limit your ability to deploy, manage and modify your software. By Sean Doherty. [Network Computing]
• SSSCA Gets a Hearing Oct. 25 -- Can It Be Stopped? - "Senator Fritz Hollings will testify about his proposed SSSCA legislation before the Senate Commerce Committee on October 25." By Tina Gasperson. Reader comments. [Linux.com]

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