[Tumbleweed_Connection]

If our rights are taken away, why buy the products? Why have the latest technological capabilities that offer nothing?

[meandog]

With the full support of Hollywood and the major music labels, Hollings introduced the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, which would require all new hardware and software products be embedded with copy protections that limit how people are able to watch and listen to digital files.

"Der's too much viewin' goin' 'round heah'"

[Thud]

Don't have a cow.

Hollings is just shaking the money tree for campaign contributions. This is another symbol like the V-chip. Information technology is a much bigger industry than Hollywood.

[Travis McGee]

I don't think these gimmicks will be any more than tiny speed bumps for file sharers.

[lds23]

The music and television industries should be the only ones allowed to rip off artists and writers, apparently.

[Lazamataz]

Howlin Mad Over Hollings' Bill

So are you?

[Michael Costello]

It's worth noting that on the day that Hollings introduced this bill, Terry McCauliffe shook down two Hollywood moguls for $12 million.

[Myrddin]

This strikes me as another step along that path that gave us DVD movies with one or two use unlock keys. A pay per use scheme. It's wildly popular. Not! That stupid idea is dying on the vine. Cheap DVD players that play titles unlimited times are less expensive than the units that force the pay per view scheme. Marketplace competition and volume sales make DVDs a profitable means of delivering movies. The DAT recorder industry was saddled with similar protection schemes before it had a chance to mature. It is a boutique item as a consequence. Killed in the cradle. Hollings is simply a prostitute for the Hollywood types. He'll assume room temperate before the full impact of his stupidity comes to roost for Hollywood and consumers.