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The complete text of the draft SSSCA (2.5 MB PDF file) is now online: http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/sssca-draft.pdf http://www.nullify.org/sssca-draft.pdf http://sites.inka.de/risctaker/sssca-draft.pdf http://www.parrhesia.com/sssca-draft.pdf Slashdot thread on the SSSCA: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/08/0238200.shtml Politech archive on SSSCA: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=sssca EFF alert on "Canadian DMCA" -- comments due September 15: http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010907_eff_canada_cpdci_alert.html -Declan ******** From: Larry Blunk <lblunk@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Text of draft Security Systems Standards and +Certification Act Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 23:09:34 -0700 (PDT) This is how I believe this act will play out: 1) This act will sail through congress thanks to the heavy lobbying of the copyright cartels. 2) The "industry" will adopt the Trust Computing Platfrom Alliance's (TCPA) (http://www.trustedpc.org) specification for PC's, and the CPRM/CPPM (http://www.4centity.com/tech/cprm/) specification for hard drives, removable storage devices, and pre-recorded media. The TCPA spec performs hardware-based signature checks on software, beginning with the boot-loader. The current spec allows for boot-loaders which fail the signature check to still load and run (with the PC in an "insecure" state). With a minor modification, the TCPA spec can require that any boot-loader which fails the signature check will fail to run at all. This can be backed up by the CPRM hard-drive which will only allow a secure program to modify the boot-loader on the hard-drive. 3) I suspect that the FBI/DOJ will not go after Linux initially (even though the "software" provision of the act provides them with the power to do so) due to the possible speech ramifications. Linux will effectively be outlawed because the mandated TCPA PC's will only run Secure Windows. 4) After several years, the Feds will go after Linux itself due to the scofflaws who continue to run Linux on their pre-TCPA computers. Microsoft has a wonderful PowerPoint presentation on their designs to monopolize the copyright protection business via the TCPA PC at http://www.microsoft.com/winhec/presents/Security.zip I bet there's alot of celebrating going on in Redmond tonight now that the possibility of a break-up has been dismissed in favor of a meaningless wrist-slap, plus they are now well on their way to getting Linux outlawed with this act. They also probably find a great deal of irony in the fact that IBM, the supposed champion of Linux, will have had significant hand in developing the technology which will be used to destroy Linux. ******** From: "Thomas Leavitt" <thomasleavitt@hotmail.com> To: declan@well.com Subject: Re: FC: Sen. Hollings plans to introduce DMCA sequel: The SSSCA Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 10:50:29 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F138UkuxBhjOo1iCCEG0000f1ee@hotmail.com> Goddamn those sons of bitches. They rewrite copyright law to fuck the creators, their every effort to impose copy-protection fails in the market or is widely circumvented, so now they're going to use their financial muscle to abuse the power of government to make copyright violation a crime with greater penalties than outright highway robbery! If your average citizen truly had a voice in government, if they truly mattered, this shit would be DOA. I dare the folk in Congress to go back to their constituents, and explain to them face to face why they don't have the right to be able to listen to the music they've paid for at both work and home, without hauling CDs everywhere... why they can't record their favorite tracks off their CDs onto their computer and make MP3 play lists... why the can't burn a few tracks onto a CD or MP3 player and play them back at a party, or in the car. That when they pay $16.99 for a CD, it buy's them nothing but the hunk of plastic the music comes on, and the "right" to play that CD on a industry/government approved device. The only response legislation like this deserves is massive, public civil disobedience. Stand out in front of the White House, with old Intel boxes running Linux and an open source MP3 ripper/player, and offer to sell them to passerby. Have 500,000 individuals be formal members of a general partnership (no liability shield) - force the government to throw us all in jail and take everything we own. We'll see what happens then! Thomas -- Thomas Leavitt -- thomasleavitt@hotmail.com; ICQ #16455919 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. 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