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Tech plays both sides on DMCA (ZDNet)

[Posted March 11, 2003 by ris]

This ZDNet article looks at the DMCA and how HP and Intel seem to both revile and support the act. "Last week, Intel and HP's names appeared on a press release circulated by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) opposing crucial changes to section 1201 of the DMCA. Specifically, the BSA lashed out at a bill that would make it legal to bypass copy-protection mechanisms--as long as you're not planning to circulate the resulting file to tens of thousands of your closest friends."
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The BSA

Posted Mar 11, 2003 22:07 UTC (Tue) by rknop (guest, #66) [Link]

"A bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

(That applies to other acronymic lobbying organizations that tend to appear on LWN as well, including SCO, RIAA, MPAA...)

(One can only hope that said revolution will be blodless.)

-Rob

Tech plays both sides on DMCA (ZDNet)

Posted Mar 12, 2003 0:01 UTC (Wed) by torsten (guest, #4137) [Link] (1 responses)

Playing both sides of the field ensures that you are on the winning team. It's a sound strategy many people overlook.

Torsten

Tech plays both sides on DMCA (ZDNet)

Posted Mar 12, 2003 5:02 UTC (Wed) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link]

Playing both sides of the field ensures that you are on the winning team. It's a sound strategy many people overlook.

It's only sound if your diplomacy is up to the task of convincing each side that you are more on their side than on the other.

What's really happening, of course, is that these companies have split interests, so they support both sides of the DMCA fiasco for different purposes, and probably from different departments.


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