[thelist] The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Act

Jane Williams jane at williams.nildram.co.uk
Mon Mar 25 01:28:01 CST 2002


On 24 Mar 2002 at 17:01, the head lemur wrote:

> The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Act
> http://cryptome.org/broadbandits.htm
> is the next chapter in controlling your rights ....

> On March 21st, Senator Hollings
> officially announced the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television
> Promotion Act (CBDTPA), ...>
>  Source: http://www.digitalconsumer.org/cbdtpa/
...

> Also the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary is soliciting comments.
> http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/input_form.cfm

On trying to read that lot, two things struck me:

1) All this Law is beyond my feeble brain: I can do code, I can't do this.
2) It seems to be only US law. So do I need to worry about it anyway? I dunno. Anyone
who understood it like to tell me?







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