[thelist] The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Act

[Peter Kaulback]

Possibly, but if it infringes on concerns with the EU or say China or for
that matter any trading body within the WTO then it will likely remain in
the US alone.

Peter Kaulback

In the hour of 02:44 AM 3/25/2002 -0500, Martin Kuplens-Ewart spoke this:
> > 2) It seems to be only US law. So do I need to worry about it anyway?
>
>Yes. Since most popular media is controlled by US-based groups, any US
>law is applied to the business processes, and therefore also all
>lobbying efforts, of those groups, causing a spill-over into the
>customer experience elsewhere.
>
>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.
>
>Etc.
>
>So yeah, it should definitely be a concern.
>
>-m
>
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