[free-sklyarov] Re: [DMCA_discuss] FC: Hollywood lobbyists laud SSSCA as "exceedingly reasonable" bill

[Matthew T. Russotto]

} http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46671,00.html
} 
}    Hollywood Loves Hollings' Bill
}    By Declan McCullagh (declan at wired.com)
}
}    2:00 a.m. Sep. 11, 2001 PDT
}
}    WASHINGTON -- Entertainment industry lobbyists say programmers and
}    open-source activists should not be alarmed by a controversial
}    proposal to embed copy-protection controls in nearly all PCs and
}    consumer electronic devices.

Uhh, yeah, and the FBI at Waco said "This is not an attack".

}    In interviews Monday, representatives of the Walt Disney Company and
}    News Corp. defended a draft of the Security Systems Standards and
}    Certification Act (SSSCA) as a reasonable compromise that will spur
}    high-speed Internet access, boost hardware and thwart piracy.

If that's the compromise, what's their real desire, implanted
anti-piracy microchips in the brain?

}     "We think it's likely to jumpstart the broadband revolution, because
}     entertainment content will create consumer demand," Padden said. "If
}     you're a computer company or if you make hubs and routers or if you're
}     trying to build a broadband network, you want this bill."

If you're a computer company other than the really big ones (who might want it
as a cost-of-entry barrier), you don't want it.  If you're making hubs
and routers, you surely don't want it.  If you're trying to build a
broadband network, you don't want it -- in all these cases it raises
your costs without any corresponding benefit.  The only benefit
accrues to RIAA members, MPAA members, and Microsoft -- and the former
two get little of the costs.