RIAA turns against Hollings bill

[Declan McCullagh]

I have a news analysis up at News.com that, perhaps, may shed some
light on what's actually going on:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-980671.html

-Declan


On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:25:01AM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> The New York Times is reporting at
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/technology/14CND-PIRACY.html that
> the Recording Industry Association of America, along with two computer
> and technology industry trade groups, has agreed not to seek new
> government regulations to mandate technological controls for copyright
> protection.  This appears to refer primarily to the Hollings bill,
> the CBDTPA, which had already been struck a blow when Hollings lost his
> committee chairmanship due to the Democrats losing Senate leadership.
> Most observers see this latest step as being the last nail in the coffin
> for the CBDTPA.
> 
> Some months ago there were those who were predicting that Trusted
> Computing technology, as embodied in the TCPA and Palladium proposals,
> would be mandated by the Hollings bill.  They said that all this talk of
> "voluntary" implementations was just a smoke screen while the players
> worked behind the scenes to pass laws that would mandate TCPA and
> Palladium in their most restrictive forms.  It was said that Linux would
> be banned, that computers would no longer be able to run software that
> we can use today.  We would cease to be the real owners of our computers,
> others would be "root" on them.  A whole host of calamaties were forecast.
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