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Girding Against the Copyright Mob
(Wired News, August 2, 2002)
the simple transfer of music, from home to car to portable device, could soon be ending. Content companies and consumer advocates are waging a vicious battle in Washington, with the future of consumer rights -- and what you can do with products you have purchased -- at stake. . . . "With the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, things that were legal have now suddenly become illegal," . . . Mandating technology solutions, or locking down what people can do with technology, could have devastating effects on future innovation. . . . From the labs at MIT in the late '50s to the free software and open-source programmers in the '90s, hacking has historically relied on an open and available flow of information. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has curtailed that flow of information. . . . While it's possible to break that security measure, it's against the law. Those pesky security wraps also prevent people from watching a DVD on a computer that runs on the Linux open-source operating system. . . . Technology companies have called on lawmakers to address these concerns, but instead they've come to find that congressional leaders take their cues from movie studios and record labels.

posted by Lorenzo 5:20 PM