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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