FC: California's Sen. Feinstein cozies up to SSSCA, anti-copying laws

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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   Cal Senator: Hollywood Over Tech
   By Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)
   
   2:00 a.m. March 15, 2002 PST
   WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein may come from Northern California,
   but she's siding with Hollywood instead of Silicon Valley.
   
   Feinstein suggested on Thursday that Congress might need to intervene
   in what has become a highly visible tussle between content owners
   worried about online piracy and tech firms that fear intrusive new
   regulations. And since the two-term senator chairs a technology
   subcommittee, she's in a position to turn her views into law.
   
   At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Feinstein held up a burned CD
   with a pirated version of the movie Shrek that she said an aide had
   downloaded from a peer-to-peer network. "This is Napster times 10,
   because no one can shut these services down," Feinstein warned.
   "Widespread movie piracy is just around the corner."

   [...]



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