John Young has put his amazing OCR software to work. He emailed me this link to the HTML text of the entire bill: http://cryptome.org/sssca.htm It's even on the Mojo Nation anonymous publishing network: http://localhost:4004/id/gWvulP_HqA23QJgxGQdoMZgm_l8/ An anti-SSSCA petition is here: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/SSSCA/petition.html Politech archive on SSSCA: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=sssca ********** >Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 15:59:58 -0700 (PDT) >From: Lauren Weinstein <laurenat_private> >To: daveat_private >Subject: DMCA, SSSCA, and the Copy Machine Control Act > > >Dave, > >I'm not being factitious with the Subject line above. A couple of >years ago in the PRIVACY Forum, in the issue located within the archive at: > > http://www.vortex.com/privacy/priv.08.18 > >I reported on "invisible" IDs that are imprinted on a wide variety of >xerographic copier output, unknown to most users. The ID is encoded using >digital watermarking techniques (more broadly an application of >"steganography"). Many modern digital copiers also contain systems to >detect attempts at copying currency and taking appropriate preventative >action. > >When I originally reported all of this (even though I had it all straight >from the mouth of a Xerox spokesman) many people simply refused to >believe it -- it seemed so far beyond the pale. > >Let's look a few years ahead and extrapolate from the current trend of >criminalizing any activity that attempts to "subvert" any "rights control" >systems, however defined. If the "copyright lobby" continues to hit home >runs in the political system, there's no good reason why they won't move >onward to copiers and scanners in due course. The technologies I described >above could easily be used to define a system that would refuse to copy any >document, book page, photo, or whatever that included hidden watermarking >information. Hell, you could go all the way and even report the attempt to >a central authority in the case of Internet-connected equipment. About a >thousand dollars for "research" and a few million for lobbying and you're >all set! > >Of course, this really is largely our own fault. We technologists have had a >dandy time building our equipment, software, and systems, then handing them >over to the powers-that-be -- the folks who in the copyright arena are on >their way towards owning everything in the store, the store itself, and the >ground the store is sitting on. We moan and complain to each other in >mailing lists, while the organized big boys chuckle all the way to the bank. > >Unless enough of us change our ways of approaching these issues and come down >from the ivory towers, we'll continue to be squashed like bugs. > >--Lauren-- >Lauren Weinstein >laurenat_private or laurenat_private or laurenat_private >Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org >Co-Founder, Fact Squad - http://www.factsquad.org >Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com >Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy ********** Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 18:14:10 -0400 Subject: anti-SSSCA petition online From: Don Pavlish <sssca@private> To: <declanat_private> Hi Declan, Thanks for getting word on the SSSCA out... I've put up a petition online opposing it. If you see fit to share this URL with your audience, I'd appreciate it: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/SSSCA/petition.html all the best, - Don -- Don Pavlish http://www.donpavlish.com aol IM: donpavlish ********** Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 12:37:58 -0700 To: declanat_private From: Michael Teetering <teeteringat_private> Subject: Sen. Hollings plans to introduce DMCA sequel: The SSSCA Declan, I remember. I remember the 60's and the movement we were all a part of. I remember well the meetings and the plans of the outraged members of the Weather Underground and the Black Panthers and the Yippies and all the other groups I knew intimately as a member. I remember most how often the same few of us were left alone when it came time to implement the actions we all so assiduously planned. It was always the same ones, and almost never enough to make a difference. There is a tool that will stop the DMCA/SSSCA and the TCPA and the rest. It is one that can be utilized immediately and consistently. Stop spending....period. Don't buy music, don't upgrade software, don't continue to feed the frenzy for faster and better. Use the computer sitting before you now, for as long as possible. If that forces them to be more restrictive, limiting support and access; then and only then should we study the other steps needed to take back what they are attempting to remove. Restrictions placed on CD's and computers we don't own (using the Royal we) and WON'T buy are restrictions placed on nothing. We empower these people with our programmed buying responses. Hit them in the bank accounts and see how quickly they turn and reconsider. (Reference Adobe's stance reversal.) It is time to restructure the paradigm... only then can we hope to direct it and perhaps gain back what we never should have lost. - - - Michael Teetering Teeteringat_private ********** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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