Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] more ugly waves
From: Paul Davis (pbd_AT_Op.Net)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 05:26:34 EEST
>Ok, here is another article on an attempt to make it illegal for any
>open source product to even touch anything related to commercial media:
its much stronger than that. as currently written, the SSSCA would
make it illegal to sell, and possibly to use (its unclear) any digital
device with an open source operating system. its not clear if you
could buy the device and then install such an operating system, but
the intent is clearly to lock up the data stream so that even the
final analog path is not accessible (fools!)
this is perhaps the most dangerous piece of legislation since the
DMCA, perhaps even more so. i loved the congressional attribution in
the article: "Senator Hollings (D-Disney)"
--p
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