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Fritz's Hit List
Posted by Ernest Miller on Monday, September 30 @ 11:26:36 EDT Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Prof. Edward W. Felten, who famously broke the back of the SDMI consortium by finding weaknesses in their security, publishes a great weblog called Freedom-to-Tinker. Last week he initiated a new feature called Fritz's Hit List. What is Fritz's Hit List?:
Most readers have probably heard me, or someone like me, say that the [Fritz] Hollings' CBDTPA [Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act] has far-reaching effects -- that it would regulate virtually all digital devices, including many that have nothing at all to do with copyright infringement. Though this argument is right, it is too abstract to capture the full absurdity of the CBDTPA's scope.
To foster reasoned debate on this topic, I'm inaugurating a new daily feature here at freedom-to-tinker.com, called "Fritz's Hit List." Each entry will give an actual example of a device that would meet the CBDTPA's definition of "digital media device" and would thereby fall under the heavy hand of CBDTPA regulation.
I'll post a new example every weekday for as long as I can keep it up. Please email me if you want to suggest an example. (I have plenty of good ones in the queue already, but your suggestions may be better than mine.)
The list has been excellent so far, showing the absolute absurdity of where Hollywood intends to shove wazoos (in Doc Searls colorful phrase). The list includes, so far: Good stuff.
 
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