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jaguar

10-03-2002 12:19 AM

Finally! Some good news

From this article:

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The IT industry's giants including Intel will rally behind a bill to be announced by Congressman Rick Boucher in Washington DC, tomorrow morning.

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Lofgren's proposed "Digital Choice And Freedom Act Of 2002" (DCFA) [summary ; full text] will ensure that consumers will be able to make copies, sell or reuse digital media they own; prohibits non-negotiable shrink wrap licenses and decriminalizes non-infringing circumvention devices.

Lets hope it gets through!!

Undertoad

10-03-2002 09:07 AM

Finally Intel et al realize that preventing people from doing what they want with their PCs is bad for the PC business. MS Word doesn't tax a Pentium, much less a Pentium 4. To do that you meed multimedia.

Nic Name

10-03-2002 09:28 AM

Fur spell cheque you meed Word.

russotto

10-03-2002 03:06 PM

It's dead already.

Nic Name

10-03-2002 03:26 PM

No bill with Freedom in the title has a hope since the PATRIOT ACT.

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