[thelist] The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Act

[John Handelaar]

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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Martin Kuplens-Ewart
> Sent: 25 March 2002 07:44
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RE: [thelist] The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Act
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> > 2) It seems to be only US law. So do I need to worry about it anyway?
>
> Yes.

[snip]

> If US law provides effective blockage of personal copying rights, then
> that will be echoed in products worldwide. If media corps. are able to
> force libraries in the US to charge members a per-use fee for access to
> media, then they will most likely do that elsewhere, too.

No.

If a range of new technology products is to succeed in the
marketplace and become a wildfire success, it needs (from the
end-user point of view) to suck less than whatever you've
got now.  This stuff'll just fail, in the unlikely event
it ever makes it to statute.

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