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Music, Tech Groups OK Copyright Plans (AP)

[Posted January 14, 2003 by corbet]

Yahoo is carrying an Associated Press article claiming that the RIAA, the Business Software Alliance, and the Computer Systems Policy Project have reached a deal regarding lobbying of Congress on digital rights management. The RIAA will argue against requirements for copy protection in digital devices. In exchange, the BSA's and CSPP's member companies (i.e. Microsoft, Adobe, etc.) will fight legislation which would broaden fair use and copying rights. "The agreement politically isolates the powerful Motion Picture Association of America, which was noticeably absent from the deal's participants. The MPAA has aggressively supported new government requirements for built-in locking controls on new devices, such as DVD recorders."
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Microsoft just announced their copy-prevention CD format

Posted Jan 21, 2003 19:47 UTC (Tue) by frumious (subscriber, #3892) [Link]

Perhaps this is why they backed off:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/861109.asp?0cv=CB10

It's called: Windows Media Data Session Toolkit

I wonder how it will work (or not) on Linux?


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