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Globe Technology: Copyright bill universally rejected [via Slashdot: Copyright [CBDTPA] Bill Universally Rejected]

The Senate Judiciary Committee, which has also held hearings on the issue, has received more than 3,500 comments criticizing the bill, a spokeswoman said.

“We haven’t received one e-mail in support of the Hollings bill,” said Judiciary Committee spokeswoman Mimi Devlin. “It seems like there’s a groundswell of support from regular users.”

High-tech lobbying groups have weighed in as well, arguing that mandatory copyright-protection technologies would hurt their ability to innovate, and would encourage consumers to hold on to their older computers rather than buy new models that restricted their activities.

CBDTPA looks destined to die a quiet death in committee. But if anything like this bill ever actually passes, our entire society will instantly turn into Cuba after the embargo, where everybody holds on to their pre-2002 technology, fixing it up year after year, decade after decade, rather than pay for new crippled technology. (In Cuba I believe it was cars in particular; for us it would be computers.)

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