IP: EFF "Consensus at Lawyerpoint" blog

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@eff.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:32:13 -0800
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: EFF "Consensus at Lawyerpoint" blog


EFF has started our first weblog, "Consensus at Lawyerpoint", with
news and information about the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group.

http://www.eff.org/blogs/bpdg/

The BPDG is (among other things) the CE and computer industries'
compromise with Hollywood to forestall broader government mandates.
Instead, it is a narrow government mandate, with some similarities
to the Audio Home Recording Act -- a "consensus at lawyerpoint".

The premise is that it will become illegal to sell digital television
receivers that have unencrypted digital outputs, or allow the user to
record in an open standard format.

-- 
Seth Schoen
Staff Technologist                                schoen@eff.org
Electronic Frontier Foundation                    http://www.eff.org/
454 Shotwell Street, San Francisco, CA  94110     1 415 436 9333 x107


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