Subject: Re: SSSCA
From: Scott Johnson (sjohnson@gci.net)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 00:05:07 AKST
These were my feelings exactly.
While it has yet to be introduced, just the fact that a piece of legislation
such as this was even drafted is unacceptable. People said the DMCA would
never pass Congress, yet look where we are today. If we don't make our
feelings on this clear now (especially to our senator who also happens to be
a backer of the bill), we may not get the chance.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Valentine" <amv@akvalentine.com>
To: "AKLUG" <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: 03 March, 2002 17:54
Subject: Re: SSSCA
>
> I can't possibly express how much this bothers me. I think that we, as
> a group, need to contact Sen. Stevens and let him know that this is
> unacceptable. We need to try to make him understand why it is bad.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 17:30, Scott Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Whoops... should probably include some more information.
> >
> > Apparently, "The SSSCA, among other things, will make the following
illegal:
> > * Assembling a home-built PC.
> > * Using a non-secure computer (ie, a computer built before the would-be
> > implementation of the SSSCA) on a network.
> > * Widespread development of open-sourced (non-copyrighted and "digitally
> > unsigned? software.
> > * Use of open-sourced software (essentially the entire software platform
for
> > the UNIX and Linux operating systems, on which Computer Science research
> > relies).
> > * University and corporate research on systems, debugging, security, and
> > watermarking."
> >
> > See also:
> >
> >
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&d
> > ist=yhoo&guid=%7BCC92A3EB-B59F-41F6-840C-4D224E765A2E%7D
> >
> > http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/business/2764054.htm
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scott Johnson" <sjohnson@gci.net>
> > To: "Aklug" <aklug@aklug.org>
> > Sent: 03 March, 2002 17:24
> > Subject: SSSCA
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Anyone heard of this legislation that Sen. Stevens is apparently
backing?
> > >
> > > http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.090701.html
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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