[dvd-discuss] Kevin Marks on ALERT: CBDTPA = Intel TCPA?

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson(at)realmeasures.dyndns.org>]

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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 00:17:26 -0700
From: Kevin Marks <kmarks@mac.com>


On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 02:01 PM, David Farber wrote:
> Funny. Senior Intel management lobbied strongly against the bill.

Dave,
if you read what Vadasz said to Congress, while he made some
good points about the relative sizes of the computing and
entertainment industry, the need for fair use, and the
foolishness of software design by legislation, he did not
attack the central flawed premise of DRM (that encryption
can be used to protect something from someone who has the
key to decrypt it) but instead claimed that such a system
was both viable and available:

> http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:commerce.senate.gov/hearings/022802vasdasz.pdf+Vadasz&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
> One immediate concern of the studios, today, is
> over-the-air broadcast of digital content. The
> CPTWG is nearing completion of technical
> specifications to address this issue. There is
> general agreement that it may be necessary for
> the FCC to assist in the implementation of the
> digital broadcast protection solution by enacting
> a very narrow regulation respecting requirements 
> for digital television receiver products to
> ensure that they pass on the content in a
> protected form.

> http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200202/msg00274.html
> I reiterate that the CPTWG cross-industry working
> group has developed effective technology that is
> available today that can and will protect new
> digital, secured content from being pirated on
> the Internet. If it is protected "at the source"
> it will always be protected from the illegal
> activities of Internet pirates. Sony Pictures and
> AOL-Time/Warner have in fact licensed this
> technology.


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