Beating a dead horse - Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act

[Alan Dayley]

This is like that local law we have about a stadium tax where the people who 
live in the county weren't supposed to pay the car rental and hotel tax.  
Ever try to rent a car without paying the tax?  Can't be done, you pay the 
tax because everyone just shrugs and says "we have no way of tracking that."  
The provision was there to make everyone want to vote for it but now we get 
stuck paying.

Same here.  They want to tell us that we will still be able to copy for 
personal use so it is easier to swallow.  But when implemented, we won't be 
able to copy because "pulling this off" will not be practical.  And they will 
just shrug and say "oh, well"

Bad law!  Bad, bad law!

Alan

On Saturday 30 March 2002 02:04 am, you wrote:
> This one really baffles me.  This bill requires a copy protection
> system to be implemented on digitial media capable devices, yet
> section 3.(e)(1) Personal Use Copies, states the security measures
> must allow copying material as allowed under the US Copyright laws.
>
> So how are they going to pull this one off?  Create a copy protection
> system that prevents copying yet allows copying.  OK.  Sure.  Whatever.
>
> Can someone hit me with a clue stick so I can understand this?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> George
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