[42467] in Cypherpunks
Re: S. 1284 To Amend (C) Act
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cjs)
Sat Oct 28 14:05:16 1995
From: cjs@netcom.com (cjs)
To: BELL@odo.law.udayton.edu (Tom Bell)
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 11:00:31 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <14ADF0902256@odo.law.udayton.edu> from "Tom Bell" at Oct 28, 95 11:33:13 am
> The 9/28/95 Congression Report states that Senators Hatch and Leahy
> have introduced a bill to amend the Copyright Act in accord with the
> suggestions of the recent White Paper on the National Information
> Infrastructure. In relevant part, S. 1284: 1) makes transmission of
> copies a type of publication (and thus potentially a means of
> infringing a copyright); and 2) prohibits the importation,
> manufacture, or distribution of any device the primary purpose of
> which is to deactivate any technological protections that prevent or
> inhibit the violation of copyrights.
>
> Though I can imagine cypherpunks objecting to the first of these two
> provisions, I'm especially interested in how you regard the
> second.
Its a mad mad mad mad mad world. I'd better order my cable descrambler
ahead of time.
Christopher
