Sen. Hollings plans to introduce DMCA sequel: The SSSCA

[Bill Stewart]

At 09:27 PM 09/08/2001 -0400, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
>The Hollings bill simply outlaws private ownership of home computers. It
>requires the Ministry of Infotainment to have permanent irremovable root
>privileges on every personal computer.  The Ministry is required to run a
>complete log of every read and write to the hard disk and of all
>connections to the Net.

No, you're allowed to own old PCs, though probably not to resell them.
What you can't do is reformat the hard drive, or disconnect the old one
when you buy a new one, or uninstall any software that might have
copy protection capabilities.  Lack of scienter may or may not get you
off the hook for the $500,000 fine for uninstalling software that
you didn't realize had the Hollings/Stevens code installed.




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