Tech heavies support challenge to copyright law (News.com)
[Posted June 22, 2004 by corbet]
News.com
reports that attempts to fix the DMCA are gaining some support.
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But members of the nascent coalition, including Intel, Sun Microsystems, Verizon Communications, SBC, Qwest, Gateway and BellSouth, are lending their support to a proposal by Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., to rewrite that part of the DMCA. Boucher's bill says that descrambling utilities can be distributed, and copy protection can be circumvented as long as no copyright infringement is taking place."
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