9th May 2013, 12:06 PM
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/...ca-reform/
But perhaps not for long.
A bill has been introduced that will specifically legalize circumventing any and all DRM so long as you are doing so for a legal purpose. The wording is explicit, and the intention behind it even more so in public statements that are easily usable in a court room to establish the bill's original intent for years to come. Also, this is ALL the bill does. Nothing more and nothing less. It even has bipartisan support.
...So why do I get the feeling the bill will stagnate and die anyway? Well, probably because the US Congress is required to pass the thing. We may see this transform from the "Consumer digital rights act" to the "Digital rights and gun protection act" to the "Act for the monification of banks and also maybe DRM rights act". Also, think of the children. This is just government sanctioned theft.
But perhaps not for long.
A bill has been introduced that will specifically legalize circumventing any and all DRM so long as you are doing so for a legal purpose. The wording is explicit, and the intention behind it even more so in public statements that are easily usable in a court room to establish the bill's original intent for years to come. Also, this is ALL the bill does. Nothing more and nothing less. It even has bipartisan support.
...So why do I get the feeling the bill will stagnate and die anyway? Well, probably because the US Congress is required to pass the thing. We may see this transform from the "Consumer digital rights act" to the "Digital rights and gun protection act" to the "Act for the monification of banks and also maybe DRM rights act". Also, think of the children. This is just government sanctioned theft.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)