[luau] CBDTPA: Senator Patrick Leahy Opposes Hollings Bill

[Warren Togami]

A few interesting items in this article:

Hollings Howls Will Have to Wait
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51425,00.html

The Vermont Democrat said through a spokesman that he "does not" support the
Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA), which Sen.
Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina) introduced this month.

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A copyright campaign: Notice how all the champions of Hollywood's
copy-protect-everything legislation are Democrats? ... Reynolds wrote in a
column this week: "If the Republicans have any sense, they'll be making an
issue of this in the next elections, painting the Democrats as hypocrites
who have sold out to Hollywood, and who are trying to reach, Big
Brother-like, into the hearts of American televisions and computers. But
even if they don't, a lot of Web denizens will be saying it, and it's likely
to have a lot of resonance. Because it's true."

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Carnivore update: The FBI lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit seeking details
about the bureau's Carnivore surveillance system.

This week, U.S. District Judge James Robertson ruled that the FBI should
have turned over documents relating to the spyware and ordered a 60-day
"further search." Robertson rejected the FBI's request for summary judgment.