[vorbis] SSSCA

[Julien Stephane]

Here is a good link:
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/20/2%20047211

Americans be careful: the events of the past weeks will accelerate the mutation of your democracy to a money dictature.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Felix Rieger 
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:28 PM
> To:	vorbis at xiph.org
> Subject:	Re: [vorbis] SSSCA
> 
> I personally think you cannot forbid any open.source projects because its like
> giving a gift to the people who want it... and giving legal things like source
> code written by yourself to other people cant be illegal...
> Felix
> 
> Reuben Martin schrieb:
> 
> > This may not directly be a vorbis topic, but it could have some VERY serious
> > implications for open source development. I read this morning on the doom9
> > site about the "Security Systems Standard and Certification Act." I not a
> > lawyer so I'm just going by doom9's interpretation. Here's an excerpt from
> > doom9:
> >
> > "Should it pass kiss your rights as a consumer by bye. As a side effect any
> > open source software will effectively become illegal as well as the DRM
> > management all devices will have to integrate will certainly be proprietary
> > and can therefore not be implemented into open source software."
> >
> > Has anybody here already seen this? If there are any legal experts here,
> > could you take a look at the actual draft and see if Open Source is actually
> > in danger from this act?  http://cryptome.org/sssca.htm
> >
> > -Reuben
> >
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