Tech Heavyweights oppose SSSCA

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Tue Oct 23 14:19:46 PDT 2001


http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1415241&mode=thread
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5098618,00.html

Microsoft opposes SSSCA.  Is this good news?  I think so.

Beginning of ZDNet article:
Technology industry heavyweights are trying to kill a Hollywood-backed plan
heading for Congress that would require anti-piracy protections in PCs, CD
players and other consumer electronics devices.  After weeks of conference
calls and quiet rallying of the troops, technology companies including
Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Compaq Computer held a coming-out press conference
Monday to oppose a broad copyright protection proposal being backed by Walt
Disney and Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S. C.  The plan has yet to be introduced
as a bill, but it has been the source of intense debate since August, when
drafts first began reaching the public. The technology companies' event
appeared to be aimed at pre-empting a Senate hearing on the issue scheduled
for later this week.

"This legislation would be an unwarranted intrusion by the government into
the commercial marketplace," said Ken Kay, executive director of the
Computer Systems Policy Project, a trade group that includes IBM, Intel,
Dell Computer, Motorola and others as members. "This would freeze
technology...(and) force government to pick winners and losers."
(continued in article)



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