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The bill, called the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA), prohibits the sale or distribution of nearly any kind of electronic device -- unless that device includes copy-protection standards to be set by the federal government.
Translation: Future MP3 players, PCs and handheld computers will no longer let you make all the copies you want.
Wired
No more than two years and seven months after the bill becomes law, the only code programmers and software firms will be able to distribute must have embedded copy-protection schemes approved by the federal government.
To put this in perspective: The CBDTPA would, if enacted in its current form, have the electrifying effect on computer professionals that the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore did to some Democratic Party members.
Wired
A href="http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51275,00.html">Projected impact of the Bill
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Posted on Sunday, 24 March 2002 @ 08:20:56 EST by Paul
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