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Your Copyright > My Security?
March 18, 2006 ( geek )
The usual band of consumer-haters, the RIAA, BSA, and MPAA, have rejected a plea to the copyright office in the wake of the Sony/BMG debacle (remember, the audio CD that installs a rootkit backdoor into your computer, and if you try to remove it, it disables your CD drive?)
The request was for an exemption to the DMCA (Which makes tinkering with copy-control mechanisms illegal) in the case that the "threaten critical infrastructure and potentially endanger lives."
The media industry associations responded that this just made things too confusing for them, and restricted their ability to cook up reliable DRM (which may or may not threaten your privacy, security, and/or critical infrastructure).
Read more at Freedom to Tinker
Posted by griffjon at March 18, 2006 10:36 AM
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