Witness list for Thursday's hearing: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.sssca.hearing.022602.html Draft text of Sen. Hollings' SSSCA: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.090701.html Politech SSSCA archive: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=sssca --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50702,00.html Digital Security Fomenting a Feud By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) 2:00 a.m. Feb. 27, 2002 PST WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee is stepping into the middle of an increasingly vocal spat over the future of technology: how to prevent illicit copying of digital content. On Thursday morning, Senate Commerce chairman Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina) will convene a hearing on digital copy protection, which he believes should be embedded in nearly all PCs and consumer electronic devices. The witness list for Thursday's event includes Walt Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, Intel Vice President Leslie Vadasz and Motion Picture Association of America President Jack Valenti. Hollings' spokesman, Andy Davis, says the hearing is meant to discuss whether the government must step in and mandate standards -- which Hollywood believes will allow movies to be distributed safely online, spur high-speed Internet access, and boost hardware sales. The idea is opposed by many technology firms, programmers and open-source devotees. "The technology community doesn't want any standards regardless of what form they take. There's an impasse that needs to be bridged if we want to create broadband services and increase consumer demand for those services," Davis said on Tuesday. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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