Security Alert: Proposed Law Could Silence Consumer Devices
Princeton Professor Edward W. Felten garnered national attention last year, when the RIAA threatened legal action to prevent him from publishing a research paper revealing flaws in several proposed digital watermarking systems.
Felten has now posted a Web page called "Fritz's Hit List," named after Senator Earnest "Fritz" Hollings (D-SC). On the page, Felten points out the large number of devices that would be required - pointlessly - to include copy protection under a more recently proposed law: Hollings' "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act." Besides silencing the irritating singing fish, the bill - if made law - would require copy protection to be built into any digital device that could hold copyrighted data.
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