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[Discuss-gnuradio] Senate SSSCA hearing on "the digital television trans
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John Gilmore |
Subject: |
[Discuss-gnuradio] Senate SSSCA hearing on "the digital television transition" |
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Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:49:06 -0800 |
An EFF media release pointed me to this Senate press release:
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation
announcement of hearings:
http://commerce.senate.gov/press/107-159.html
Chairman Announces Hearing on Digital Content
Copyright Protection, Broadband, and Digital TV Transition
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC), Chairman of the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announced today a
full committee hearing on digital content copyright protection, the
promotion of broadband services, and the digital television transition
on Thursday, February 28, 2002, in Room 253 of the Russell Senate
Office Building. Senator Hollings will preside.
This is the guy who is going to try to outlaw VCRs for HDTV. Receivers
that can listen to over-the-air broadcast HDTV and record it without copy
protection crap would become illegal to own, make, or distribute.
He and his buddies in Hollywood are trying to outlaw the GNU Radio
software, among other things that the copy-prevention mafia doesn't
like -- such as open PC architectures.
John
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