Brian Chase wrote:
This is a bit scary. Make me wish I was back down under.
Reserve me a seat on the next plane to Sydney! Now all Australia has to do is lower the high prices of their broadband internet and stop paying usage charges on bandwidth.
http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200110/200110.htm#_linuxlog
The CBDTPA Bill (formerly known as the SSSCA as mentioned in the above admittedly very old blog entry) seems to be a lame duck. I have googled for current references.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:s.02048: produces this: Latest Major Action: 3/21/2002
This is all related to Microsoft's DRM proposals and efforts to lobby the US Congress to pass draconian legislation to supposedly protect content on the Internet. It is doomed to failure, as pointed out by many pundits over the past three years.
I wouldn't be packing my bags just yet to leave the USA for the above reason alone. There are many more compelling reasons to do so. (Which are way beyond the mandate of SLUG)
cheers rickw
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