More On Why The CBDTPA Sucks
from the choking-off-our-tech-industry dept
Yesterday we mentioned the fact that Senator "Disney Pays My Bills" Hollings had finally introduced the awful CBDTPA bill. It's (not surprisingly) being talked about everywhere, but Wired has a good article explaining why the bill would cause tremendous harm to the US tech world. Basically, even if you're creating free software and you didn't care if people copied it, you would have to build in copy protection. Actually, now I'm realizing that Cringely's plan that we spoke about earlier today might be a criminal act if the CBDTPA passes. Here's someone who wants people to copy his program - and we might not be able to.
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It's a wonderful thing to see...
The US goverment shooting its own leg off in order to allow all the other countries in the world catch up and pass it technologically.
Nice show chaps, keep it up, go back to your old isolationist policies and stop interfering with everyone else.
only half :)
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Grrr
*splutter gasp*
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