[extropy-chat] FWD (SK) RFC: copy protection report

[Samantha Atkins]

The FCC should be disbanded as utterly useless and in the way.  Their  
"powers" are arbitrary and pernicious.    What exactly do they do  
that needs doing and that wouldn't be done better by a free market?

- samantha

On Dec 3, 2005, at 2:54 PM, BillK wrote:

> On 12/3/05, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
>>
>> User authentication can be made mandatory to government smartcard ID
>> (yes, Virginia, they're coming to a country near you), so that  
>> watermark
>> can be tracked back to a particular warm body (a pretty unhappy warm
>> body, soon, even if it's an unwitting dupe).
>>
>> Notice that individual system keys and content keyeing to such,  
>> and watermarking
>> of said content is not yet in any use in a commercial system, to the
>> best of my knowledge. You can be damn certain you will see this  
>> fielded
>> in less than a decade, probably in half that.
>>
>>
>
>
> Did you notice this news article?
> <http://news.com.com/2061-10804_3-5884130.html>
>
> FBI to get veto power over PC software?
> September 27, 2005 11:37 AM PDT
>
> The Federal Communications Commission thinks you have the right to use
> software on your computer only if the FBI approves.
>
> No, really. In an obscure "policy" document released around 9 p.m. ET
> last Friday, the FCC announced this remarkable decision.
>
> <http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-05-151A1.pdf>
>
> According to the three-page document, to preserve the openness that
> characterizes today's Internet, "consumers are entitled to run
> applications and use services of their choice, subject to the needs of
> law enforcement."  Read the last seven words again.
>
> -----------------------
>
> It may well happen that in a few years time the Supreme court will
> decide that the FCC have exceeded their powers a trifle here.  But in
> the meantime..........
>
>
> BillK
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