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Politech SSSCA archive: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=sssca --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51072,00.html 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." [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------