>Ok, here is another article on an attempt to make it illegal for any >open source product to even touch anything related to commercial media:
its much stronger than that. as currently written, the SSSCA would make it illegal to sell, and possibly to use (its unclear) any digital device with an open source operating system. its not clear if you could buy the device and then install such an operating system, but the intent is clearly to lock up the data stream so that even the final analog path is not accessible (fools!) this is perhaps the most dangerous piece of legislation since the DMCA, perhaps even more so. i loved the congressional attribution in the article: "Senator Hollings (D-Disney)" --p
