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Subject:    [Mailfilter-dev] The end of Open Source in the US
From:       Bob Paddock <bpaddock () csonline ! net>
Date:       2002-03-23 21:46:05
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http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51274,00.html

Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders
By Declan McCullagh

WASHINGTON -- America's programmers, engineers and sundry bit-heads have not 
yet figured out how much a new copyright bill will affect their livelihood. 
	 
When they do, watch for an angry Million Geek March to storm Capitol Hill.

A bill introduced this week by Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina) would 
roil the electronics industry by forcibly embedding copy protection into all 
digital devices, from MP3 players to cell phones, fax machines, digital 
cameras and personal computers.

[The way that the clueless politicians have written the law, even your simple 
digital wrist watch needs to have this copy protection code...]

{The Digital Millennium Copy Protection Act as already been keeping people 
from disclosing bugs found in things like the Linux kernel.  :-( }

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