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STOP federal policeware, bill s.2048!
steyzer
Member Posts: 2
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I don't know how many people are aware of this bill that our government officials are trying to pass, but please check it out at http://www.stoppoliceware.org . There is a petition there you can sign online.
"The CBDTPA is a bill (S. 2048) proposed in Congress by Senators Fritz Hollings (D-SC) and Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), along with Senators Daniel Inouye (D-HI), John Breaux (D-LA), Bill Nelson (D-FL), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). The acronym stands for "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act". Note that the CBDTPA was originally known as the "SSSCA" while in draft form."
"The law would force all new personal computers and digital home entertainment devices sold in the United States to have government-approved "policeware" built-in.
This policeware would restrict your use of copyrighted material on these devices -- including music files and CD's, video clips, DVD's, e-books, and more."
Shawn
... I don't have the words atm to say how wrong this is. Please sign the petition and spread the word in other forums wherever you can.
just an insight - Think of piracy this way, it's freedom of information, freedom of 1s and 0s, anything that can be converted into a 1 and a 0 is potentially free. And Freedom of Information, isn't that our constitution?
Of course there is copyright laws and such to protect the producers of the wonderful products we have today. The bill says
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(18) Piracy poses a substantial economic threat to America's content industries."
industries that are mostly located in the upper class of society/economy. Piracy gives freedom to the consumer, something Industries hate.
This bill allows for government to track all your electronic happenings/life. This gives the government way too much power. This is not the kind of power that a DEMOCRATIC government should have. [/rant]
Petition/sign, spread the word, fight the power... Gogo WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN!
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Think you'd be able to get around the law by removing the policeware from your personal computer? Think again -- anyone who defies the government by disabling or tampering with the policeware on their own computer, in the privacy of their own home or business, would also face five years in the slammer.
Since alternative operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD would most likely refuse to incorporate government policeware into their code, users of these open-source systems would also be eligible for hard time.
-Taken from http://stoppoliceware.org/
Black Star Deceiver kills it all.
The sun lies waiting for a call.
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"Io rido, e rider mio non passa dentro;
Io ardo, e l'arsion mia non par di fore."
-Machiavelli
Black Star Deceiver kills it all.
The sun lies waiting for a call.
_____________________________________
"Io rido, e rider mio non passa dentro;
Io ardo, e l'arsion mia non par di fore."
-Machiavelli
It wont pass, Its too much like communism, there taking away your rights as a citizen of the united states, its like planting a GPS in everyone to monior where they walk, sure it will help us track criminals, but there will be no privacy, and I belive there is a few acts agaised that...
luckly im in canada, but I gave my friends in the states a ring/e-mail and there all gona write letters
after 6 or so years, I had to change it a little...
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