...by promoting the CBDTPA, which will mandate all new computers to carry proprietary digital rights management software using a "security system standards" sanctioned by the government.
This system will prohibit the playing of all "content" which isn't "watermarked" and created by an authorized party (ie: one of the big studio's).
It will be a federal felony punishable by 10 years jail (more than rapists get) to break this system (even for playing your old DV home movies), to play protected software on an old computer and to connect an old computer to the internet.
This bill is going to be a boon for Hollywood, who can stop worrying about piracy and sell more stuff (because all your old DVD's are going to be worthless), for the music industry (for the same reasons), for the tech industry (a ban on current technology will mean more sales because people want to keep up with the latest and greatest) and for Microsoft (who will see Linux dissappear and hopefully edge it's way in to provide the "security system standards" required by this bill and therefore become masters of the key to digital content forever).
In fact this bill will benefit everybody, except the consumer and the techies.
So you'll see it passed quicker than the DMCA was passed.
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Posted by: MARJanssen on May 04, 2002 04:42 PMThis system will prohibit the playing of all "content" which isn't "watermarked" and created by an authorized party (ie: one of the big studio's).
It will be a federal felony punishable by 10 years jail (more than rapists get) to break this system (even for playing your old DV home movies), to play protected software on an old computer and to connect an old computer to the internet.
This bill is going to be a boon for Hollywood, who can stop worrying about piracy and sell more stuff (because all your old DVD's are going to be worthless), for the music industry (for the same reasons), for the tech industry (a ban on current technology will mean more sales because people want to keep up with the latest and greatest) and for Microsoft (who will see Linux dissappear and hopefully edge it's way in to provide the "security system standards" required by this bill and therefore become masters of the key to digital content forever).
In fact this bill will benefit everybody, except the consumer and the techies.
So you'll see it passed quicker than the DMCA was passed.
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