Cryptography-Digest Digest #269, Volume #14 Mon, 30 Apr 01 09:13:00 EDT
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Re: Secure Digital Music Initiative cracked? (Xcott Craver)
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Subject: Re: Secure Digital Music Initiative cracked?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Xcott Craver)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:01:05 GMT
Mok-Kong Shen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>That was my point, if I understood you. If the government
>sees that its industry is hurt by a law, i.e. the national
>revenue is going to be negatively affected, e.g. when crypto
>products could not profit from the overseas market, then
>that law is going to be amended.
Ah. Yes, this is a good possibility, although in
this case claims of a negatively affected market can
be offset by counterclaims by record companies that they
could lose millions because if this "new technology" is
not in some way kept in check.
>Note that it is always the international competition that is a
>strong driving force and that that competition could take place
>in diverse manners, >including even the eventual emergence of
>products of new forms that could supercede the original products
>in question.
Aye, that. MP3 players are a standard example. Perhaps
it will be the likes of the HRRC (Home recording rights
coalition, essentially lobbyists representing the makers
of recording devices) who help to make this argument,
especially if media copy control policies become too
severe.
>M. K. Shen
-S
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