[olug] Nov. Meeting Topics

[Jacobs, Robert A.]

Are you sure you've never heard of CBDTPA?  It is sponsored by 
Senator Hollings ("The Senator from Disney") and used to be called
the SSSCA (I think -- there were a LOT of S's). 

In any case, he changed the name because of all the bad press it got.
If you've heard of the latter but not the former then, unfortunately,
it seems his ploy might have worked.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan [mailto:rps at willconsult.com]
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 10:16 AM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: Re: [olug] Nov. Meeting Topics


At 07:58 PM 10/31/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Though it's not on the list... I could revamp my talk I did for the ACM
>chapter and talk about how the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television
>Promotion Act (CBDTPA - consume but dont try programming act), Trusted
>Computing/Palladium, and DMCA is all bad news for GNU/Linux and such...
>I'm sure Irish could talk on this too.
>
>peace
>Brian

That would be interesting.  I've thought about coming up with a 
presentation like that for our group up here.  I think too few people 
realize the implications of the DMCA.  The CBDTPA I've never even heard of.

-Ryan


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