Society, Issues, Intellectual Property, Copyrights, Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act
See Also:
- Calls on readers to submit comments opposing the technology mandates of the CBDTPA before the April 22, 2002 deadline.
- Learn about and fight the CBDTPA. Online petition, banners, news.
- Red Hat strongly opposes the bill because it encroaches on freedom of speech, it could have harmful effects on open source software, and its definition of digital technology is far too broad.
- Text of Senate bill to prohibit the sale or distribution of electronic devices that do not include "copy protection" standards to be set by the government. Press releases and news articles.
- Text of CBDTPA draft which makes it unlawful to create or sell any kind of computer equipment that "does not include and utilize certified security technologies" approved by the US Federal government.
- Letter from the Association of Computing Machinery to Senator Hollings criticizing draft bill.
- Discussion of the privacy implications of Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) and Palladium.
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