Anti Copy Bill Hits D.C.
The Democrat senator from South Carolina, after its protection legislation against copying, finishing over a period of six months of anticipation and sharpness, which has become a heated debate between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.The bill, known as the “Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA), prohibits the sale or distribution of nearly every type of electronic device - unless this device contains standards of protection against copying by the federal government.
Translation: The future of MP3 players, PCs and handheld computers will no longer make any copies that you want.
A considerable lack of security has enabled copyright piracy, sewers, America’s Content industry several billion dollars a year, “Hollings, chairman of the powerful Committee of the Senate Commerce, said in a statement Thursday.
Hollings said that “any institution, who are legal residents read, copy or transmitted electronically by one or more categories of media can also be illegal for breach of copyright, unless specific technologies of protection are incorporated.”
That is exactly why Hollings and five senators, has wish him integrate protection against copying controls on all PCs and peripherals Consumer Electronics. Devices manufactured before the law can be effective in law.
Once known as the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act, the new name of CBDTPA said that all digital devices for the media “sold to the USA or shipped into the state lines of protection mechanisms against the copy must be defined by the Federal Communications Commission.
Digital Camera “is defined in a broad elsewhere breathtaking: each hardware or software, reproduce, or screen calls or calls to” any type of work protected by copyright.
Tollé programmers already heard the protests, while the era of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. And Silicon Valley lobbyists have contested in previous versions of the CBDTPA, is once again denounced Thursday.
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