Tech Heavyweights Condemn SSSCA

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: No DMCA in Canada <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:00:05 -0400 (EDT)

  The lines are being drawn - the old-media publishing industry wants the
most extreme copyright protection with the SSSCA and the big-tech
companies don't want to go that far.

  We now need to convince consumers , small business, and distributed
business that the US's DMCA goes too far, and that even need to
re-evaluate some aspects of the current Canadian legislation (IE: length
being untied to any evaluation of the idea, economics, amount of public
subsidy,etc).


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Tech Heavyweights Condemn SSSCA
      From the: "Technology-" dept.
      Posted by: "ryan" on: Tuesday October 23 11 32 PM

      Story:  The Security Systems Standards and Certification Act's
prospects just got a bit dimmer: After weeks of conference calls and quiet
rallying of the troops, technology companies including Intel, IBM,
Microsoft and Compaq Computer held a coming-out press conference Monday to
oppose a broad copyright protection proposal being backed by Walt Disney
and Sen. Ernest Hollings. The plan has yet to be introduced as a bill, but
it has been the source of intense debate since August, when drafts first
began reaching the public.

http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=20011023233256


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