Has anyone heard anything about this bill on DMCA?

[smc]

I was just over at Engadget and this had a post about this article:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/02/digital_fair_use_bill_introduc.html

Has anyone heard about this?

Steve

[GoHokies!]

Arstechnica has had a couple of good articles on the topic:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070228-8942.html

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070228-8948.html

I effing hate the MPAA and RIAA...

(this really isn't S3 related, and barely Tivo related - Coffee House or Happy Hour would have been far more appropriate)

[smc]

Just found a link to the text.

http://www.boucher.house.gov/images/hr%201201.pdf

[smc]

In reading the bill this statement jumped out to me:

‘‘(G) The prohibition contained in subparagraph (A)
12 shall not apply to—
.....

‘‘(iii) an act of circumvention that is carried out
solely for the purpose of enabling a person to transmit
a work over a home or personal network ..."

[MichaelK]

In reading the bill this statement jumped out to me:

‘‘(G) The prohibition contained in subparagraph (A)
12 shall not apply to—
.....

‘‘(iii) an act of circumvention that is carried out
solely for the purpose of enabling a person to transmit
a work over a home or personal network ..."


bring it on