RIAA escalates attack on music piracy, wants "broadcast flag"
Photos from event: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/commerce-drm-rountable-july02.htm ---- http://news.com.com/2100-1023-944640.html?tag=politech RIAA talks tough on Web radio copying By Declan McCullagh July 17, 2002, 4:50 PM PT WASHINGTON--The Recording Industry Association of America said Wednesday that it has begun pressing for anti-copying technology in future digital radio standards. Mitch Glazier, the association's top lobbyist, said the RIAA is contacting IT and consumer electronics groups to ask them to consider a "broadcast flag" for digital music sent through the Internet, satellite or cable. [...] The idea is straightforward: Future hardware and software would treat music differently if it were designated as broadcast-only, preventing users from saving it or uploading it. Currently programs like StreamRipper or StreamCatcher can record streaming music distributed through Webcasting. But because people might not use these new kinds of music receivers if given a choice, new federal laws likely would be necessary to compel software and hardware manufacturers to abide by the broadcast-only designation. [...]
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RIAA talks tough on Web radio copying By Declan McCullagh July 17, 2002, 4:50 PM PT
WASHINGTON--The Recording Industry Association of America said Wednesday that it has begun pressing for anti-copying technology in future digital radio standards.
[...] new federal laws likely would be necessary to compel software and hardware manufacturers to abide by the broadcast-only designation.
To repeat for those who came in late. To stop such copying requires a ban on general purpose computers, and the licensing of engineers. Presumably existing computers would not at first be criminalized, but new computers would require a special license, that would be available only to the specially privileged. The hardware implementation of a crippled computers for the masses would be identical to palladium -- except that the palladium component, instead of merely truthfully reporting whether the computer is running unauthorized software, would prevent any unauthorized software from running. The trouble with palladium is that though it is not quite what the RIAA wants, it is alarmingly close. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG zKBfvcYlR1oo8QGr0lJ2ca0tunK5kW6i9f1ZF7Hh 2xN5FTB2GfWsWZ7G82KGpz4KBWuPxKUmFlrIzaP++
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