“Uncle Sam doesn’t want you, but he may want your DVD player and all your other recordable consumer electronic devices to change. As ‘Tech Live’ reports tonight, Hollywood has a few ideas on how that could happen.
“Rapid advances in popular gadgets such as PCs, DVD players, and digital video recorders have made it easier than ever to steal copyright content, and that fact has the government and the entertainment industry very concerned.
“As a result, Hollywood is behind a bill called the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Act of 2002, which is backed by Senator Ernest “Fritz” Hollings (D-South Carolina). The bill would require all new digital TV sets and recorders to be manufactured with anti-copying technology that recognizes and responds to copy-protection signals. The proposed law would give the affected industries a year to work out the details among themselves, or risk a solution imposed by the Federal Communications Commission…”
Click here to read the full TechTV article.
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