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New exam fury puts Morris's job in danger
From rssfeeds@jmason.org  Mon Sep 30 13:36:55 2002

*UK latest:* Sacked regulator accuses her of 'unbearable pressure'.

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URL: http://boingboing.net/#85506950
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Dan Gillmor interviewed Jack Valenti[1] last week in his column and did the
impartial thing, representing Valenti's beliefs as fairly as possible. This
week, Dan takes Valenti's arguments apart, looking at what Hollywood's agenda
really entails:
So the movie and music companies are going back to Congress for another
helping. They are asking for laws that would force technology innovators to
restrict the capabilities of devices -- cripple PCs and other machines that
communicate so they can't make copies the copyright holders don't
explicitly allow. Amazingly, the entertainment industry also wants
permission to hack into networks and machines they believe are being used
to violate copyrights.
Here is what it all means. To protect a business model and thwart even the
possibility of infringement, the cartel wants technology companies to ask
permission before they can innovate. The media giants want to keep
information flow centralized, to control the new medium as if it's nothing
but a jazzed-up television. Instead of accepting, as they do today, that a
certain amount of penny-ante infringement will occur and then going after
the major-league pirates, they call every act of infringement -- and some
things that aren't infringement at all -- an act of piracy or stealing.
Saying it doesn't make it so.
Link[2] Discuss[3]
[1] http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/4132447.htm
[2] http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4175607.htm
[3] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/WDUVXyKf9qUj