IP: More on DMCA sequel: Security Systems Standards and Certif. Act

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
> The complete text of the draft SSSCA (2.5 MB PDF file) is now online:
> http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/sssca-draft.pdf
> http://www.nullify.org/sssca-draft.pdf
> http://sites.inka.de/risctaker/sssca-draft.pdf
> http://www.parrhesia.com/sssca-draft.pdf
>
> Slashdot thread on the SSSCA:
> http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/08/0238200.shtml
>
> Politech archive on SSSCA:
> http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=sssca
>
> EFF alert on "Canadian DMCA" -- comments due September 15:
> http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010907_eff_canada_cpdci_alert.html
>
> -Declan
>
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>
> From: Larry Blunk <lblunk () yahoo com>
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Text of draft Security Systems Standards and
> +Certification Act
> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 23:09:34 -0700 (PDT)
>
>   This is how I believe this act will play out:
>
>  1) This act will sail through congress thanks to the heavy lobbying of
>     the copyright cartels.
>
>  2) The "industry" will adopt the Trust Computing Platfrom Alliance's (TCPA)
>     (http://www.trustedpc.org) specification for PC's, and the CPRM/CPPM
>     (http://www.4centity.com/tech/cprm/) specification for hard drives,
>     removable storage devices, and pre-recorded media.  The TCPA spec 
> performs
>     hardware-based signature checks on software, beginning with the
>     boot-loader.  The current spec allows for boot-loaders which fail the
>     signature check to still load and run (with the PC in an "insecure"
>     state).  With a minor modification, the TCPA spec can require that any
>     boot-loader which fails the signature check will fail to run at all.
>     This can be backed up by the CPRM hard-drive which will only allow a
>     secure program to modify the boot-loader on the hard-drive.
>
>  3) I suspect that the FBI/DOJ will not go after Linux initially (even
>     though the "software" provision of the act provides them with the
>     power to do so) due to the possible speech ramifications.  Linux
>     will effectively be outlawed because the mandated TCPA
>     PC's will only run Secure Windows.
>
>  4)  After several years, the Feds will go after Linux itself due to the
>     scofflaws who continue to run Linux on their pre-TCPA computers.
>
>     Microsoft has a wonderful PowerPoint presentation on their designs
>    to monopolize the copyright protection business via the TCPA PC at
>    http://www.microsoft.com/winhec/presents/Security.zip
>
>     I bet there's alot of celebrating going on in Redmond tonight now
>    that the possibility of a break-up has been dismissed in favor of
>    a meaningless wrist-slap, plus they are now well on their way to getting
>    Linux outlawed with this act.  They also probably find a great deal of
>    irony in the fact that IBM, the supposed champion of Linux, will
>    have had significant hand in developing the technology which will be
>    used to destroy Linux.
>
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>
> From: "Thomas Leavitt" <thomasleavitt () hotmail com>
> To: declan () well com
> Subject: Re: FC: Sen. Hollings plans to introduce DMCA sequel: The SSSCA
> Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 10:50:29 -0700
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> Goddamn those sons of bitches. They rewrite copyright law to fuck the 
> creators, their every effort to impose copy-protection fails in the market 
> or is widely circumvented, so now they're going to use their financial 
> muscle to abuse the power of government to make copyright violation a 
> crime with greater penalties than outright highway robbery!
>
> If your average citizen truly had a voice in government, if they truly 
> mattered, this shit would be DOA. I dare the folk in Congress to go back 
> to their constituents, and explain to them face to face why they don't 
> have the right to be able to listen to the music they've paid for at both 
> work and home, without hauling CDs everywhere... why they can't record 
> their favorite tracks off their CDs onto their computer and make MP3 play 
> lists... why the can't burn a few tracks onto a CD or MP3 player and play 
> them back at a party, or in the car. That when they pay $16.99 for a CD, 
> it buy's them nothing but the hunk of plastic the music comes on, and the 
> "right" to play that CD on a industry/government approved device.
>
> The only response legislation like this deserves is massive, public civil 
> disobedience. Stand out in front of the White House, with old Intel boxes 
> running Linux and an open source MP3 ripper/player, and offer to sell them 
> to passerby. Have 500,000 individuals be formal members of a general 
> partnership (no liability shield) - force the government to throw us all 
> in jail and take everything we own. We'll see what happens then!
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Leavitt -- thomasleavitt () hotmail com; ICQ #16455919
>
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