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| DATE | 2002-03-04 |
| FROM | Seth Johnson
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] [Fwd: IP: U.S. House not YET djf] willing to endorsemandatory copy
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-------- Original Message --------
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 14:43:30 -0500
From: Dave Farber
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50784,00.html
House Cool to Copy Protection
By Declan McCullagh (declan-at-wired.com) and Robert Zarate
2:00 a.m. March 4, 2002 PST
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives doesn't seem
willing to intercede in an increasingly bitter dispute over
embedding copy protection controls in all consumer
electronic devices.
Key legislators in the House have indicated they're
skeptical of the government mandating anti-piracy
technology, an approach that Democrats of the Senate
Commerce Committee endorsed during a hearing last Thursday.
Fretting that online piracy of digital content will imperil
sales, Hollywood studios have asked Congress to bypass their
negotiations with Silicon Valley firms by requiring that all
PCs and consumer electronics sport technology to prohibit
illicit copying. Senate Commerce Chairman Fritz Hollings
(D-South Carolina) has championed this approach.
"Mr. Coble believes Hollings' approach would have the
government mandate specific software standards governing
encryption or access to copyrighted works, which are
transmitted digitally in lieu of negotiated industry
standards," said a spokesman for Rep. Howard Coble (R-North
Carolina), the chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee
on Intellectual Property.
Spokesman Terry Shawn said: "He is concerned that this
approach is too interventionist and could lead to standards
which favor certain brands of software over others, and
which could quickly become obsolete as technology improves
or changes." [...]
"Hollings' bill would mandate copy protection chips on all
sorts of hardware and machines in the same way that the
V-chip was mandated on television sets," said Richard
Diamond, a spokesman for House Majority Leader Dick Armey
(R-Texas).
Diamond said his boss, one of the more vocal members of the
Republican Party's free-market wing, doesn't like the
government requiring standards: "Rep. Armey found the V-chip
inappropriate too."
[...]
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