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X-Original-To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com X-Original-To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:17:44 -0500 From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> Cc: cypherpunks@lne.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com Mail-Followup-To: Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com>, cypherpunks@lne.com, cryptography@wasabisystems.com In-Reply-To: <fdac1ace21439abfef4f76a81e6349af@dizum.com>; from nobody@dizum.com on Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:25:01AM +0100 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. [...] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@wasabisystems.com
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