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IP: New scheme to disable "unofficially imported" electronics
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 07:27:10 -0500
X-Authentication-Warning: va.eff.org: mdomo-sy set sender to owner-eff-priv () eff org using -f Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:41:01 -0800 (PST) From: Stanton McCandlish <mech () eff org> To: eff-ip () eff org, eff-priv () eff org This is beyond amazing. It's an anti-parallel import scheme that raises a lot of the same issues as all this DRM business, plus a slew of privacy concerns. You may be saying goodbye to your imported European region-free DVD player, your Japanese SDMI-free MP3 player, etc., real soon now. http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999452 Motorola wants to pork your consumer rights, because "[i]t is often desirable to control the marketing or use of products differently in different areas". I'm apoplectic at the sheer chutzpah. -- Stanton McCandlish mech () eff org http://www.eff.org/~mech Online Communications Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation voice: +1 415 436 9333 x105 fax: +1 415 436 9333 PGPfone: 204.253.162.21
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