IP: New scheme to disable "unofficially imported" electronics

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> 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.
>
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> Stanton McCandlish      mech () eff org       http://www.eff.org/~mech
> Online Communications Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
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