FC: Senate hearing on Thursday will weigh mandatory copy controls

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Witness list for Thursday's hearing:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.sssca.hearing.022602.html

Draft text of Sen. Hollings' SSSCA:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/hollings.090701.html

Politech SSSCA archive:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=sssca

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50702,00.html

   Digital Security Fomenting a Feud
   By Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)
   
   2:00 a.m. Feb. 27, 2002 PST
   WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee is stepping into the middle of an
   increasingly vocal spat over the future of technology: how to prevent
   illicit copying of digital content.
   
   On Thursday morning, Senate Commerce chairman Fritz Hollings (D-South
   Carolina) will convene a hearing on digital copy protection, which he
   believes should be embedded in nearly all PCs and consumer electronic
   devices.
   
   The witness list for Thursday's event includes Walt Disney Chairman
   Michael Eisner, Intel Vice President Leslie Vadasz and Motion Picture
   Association of America President Jack Valenti.
   
   Hollings' spokesman, Andy Davis, says the hearing is meant to discuss
   whether the government must step in and mandate standards -- which
   Hollywood believes will allow movies to be distributed safely online,
   spur high-speed Internet access, and boost hardware sales. The idea is
   opposed by many technology firms, programmers and open-source
   devotees.
   
   "The technology community doesn't want any standards regardless of
   what form they take. There's an impasse that needs to be bridged if we
   want to create broadband services and increase consumer demand for
   those services," Davis said on Tuesday.

   [...]



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