RE: [dvd-discuss] Re: Sen. Hollings plans to introduce DMCAsequel: The SSSCA

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Zulauf [mailto:johnzu@ia.nsc.com]
...
> 
> This is what **really** gripes me.  In the name of promoting the brave
> new digital world and protecting American business they are about to
> sabotage the "next-cool-thing" and with it the economy.  By allow the
> media companies to specify, prescribe, and proscribe what 
> digital device
> do -- they're going to kill the technology industry dead.

(There are many variants of this quote on the net, I don't 
know which phrasing is the original, so I will just put
one up as representative)

Those who sacrifice freedom for a sense of security deserve neither.
-Benjamin Franklin

There is the archetypical "Anti SSSCA" slogan.

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!