'Killer DMCA' to mandate digital-rights compliant hardware

[JellyBaby]

Very scary link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/21577.html.

Basically, this is the beginnings of an effort by Hollywood, the RIAA and big software companies to place a rights restriction system on everything and make it illegal to sell products without digital rights controls in place.



<< The proposed bill, called the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA), would mean that DRM (Digital Rights Management) technology must be incorporated into every single gizmo in your house, car, knapsack and office. Into your hard drive (CPRM, anyone?); into your CD-ROM drive; into your DVD player; into your DiskMan; into your television, and so on ad nauseum. >>





<< Conveniently, and by design, the words "fair use" appear nowhere in the draft. >>



Find a happy place...find a happy place.

 

[GL]

I've always said us computer users need a lobby group similar to the NRA. I think its time has come.

 

[beatniks3]

does that mean that the hackers would turn their effort toward hardware constraints? I can see the computer industry moving in this direction even without the passing of this law...and as consumers there is little we can do...except keep the hardware we all have now!

 

[JellyBaby]

beatniks3, you can't use the same hardware forever. This law is a bad one and you can expect consumer and liberty groups to fight it. However given the influence corporate America has in Washington, the outcome is not predictable.