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Spyware bill cloaks a mini-UCITA
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| The holy grail for the software industry's political muscle has long been
| what in UCITA was called "electronic self help" - the right of software
| publishers to remotely disable their software on the mere suspicion that it
| hasn't been paid for. UCITA was ultimately stopped, but last Wednesday the
| Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on a bill that nominally is supposed
| to fight spyware but seems intended to make remote disabling legal.
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http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2008/6/16/1219/71034
The only way to control and to actually **own** what's on your hard-drive (long
time) is to choose a Free operating system. Mac OS X and Windows are turning
into cages over time, gradually.
Recent:
NBC to Apple: Build antipiracy into iTunes
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| NBC Universal would like to have its TV shows distributed once again through
| Apple's iTunes service, a top executive said Wednesday, but he called for
| antipiracy measures to help protect his business' revenue.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9920399-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
RIAA boss: Move copyright filtering from ISPs to users’ PCs
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| The issue of encryption "would have to be faced," Sherman admitted after
| talking about the wonders of filtering. "One could have a filter on the end
| user's computer that would actually eliminate any benefit from encryption
| because if you want to hear [the music], you would need to decrypt it, and at
| that point the filter would work."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080207-riaa-boss-spyware-could-solve-the-encryption-problem.html
Future OS X To Be DRM Restricted?
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| For example, a patent has recently turned up from Apple for a DRM system that
| could affect where and how software is run on OS X. Before going any further,
| the very mention of these three letters (D-R-M) together in connection with
| Apple’s operating system is discouraging because we’re supposed to be looking
| towards the open future and not the closed past.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2790&Itemid=449
Microsoft: We Like DRM
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| Steve Jobs wants the music business to drop restrictions for digital
| tunes. But Microsoft, which began competing head to head with Apple
| in the digital music business last fall, is happy with the way things
| are, says media exec Robbie Bach.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/zune-drm-itunes-tech-media-cx_df_0208bach.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2lrz3y
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