Music biz wants tougher DMCA, CPRM 2 to protect copyright

[Marcus Patino]

This one item keeps buggin me - sony is there - they sell there own burner, 
produce different types of blank media and then say 'don't copy'.  So not 
only do they want to force us to buy the media they choose to push out 
(check out the quote at the end of the article) but they also want to tell 
us what we can use there other hardware for.  These companies need to step 
out of this debate or choose one side or the other.

M

>From: Rodney K <pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
>To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
>Subject: [luau] Music biz wants tougher DMCA, CPRM 2 to protect copyright
>Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 07:39:14 -0400
>
>Now they wanna take away our privacy right too?
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22087.html
>
>(excerpt)
>
>The music industry and its hired muscle, the Recording Industry Ass. of
>America, plans to step up its war against MP3 file sharing and CD ripping
>with campaigns targeting legal, technological and Internet access fronts, 
>The
>Register has learned.
>
>Worryingly, legislation designed to protect computer users' privacy are
>likely to be tackled too. Disney chief Michael Eisner pointed out after
>Rosen's keynote that "privacy laws are our biggest impediment to us 
>obtaining
>our objectives".
>
>All this points to a move by the major music labels - and undoubtedly the
>movie companies too - to do anything they can to halt the transfer and even
>the storage of copyright material without their explicit say-so, primarily 
>by
>limiting content at source and using the law to block whatever material 
>gets
>through the net. And if anyone's rights get in the way, well that's just 
>too
>bad.
>
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