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U.S. act would make spyware legal
If you ever needed proof that big media and big government are a big crock of... well, let's just say look no further than the SPY Act. The U.S. House of Representatives already sold you down the river but, the bill is currently making it's slimy way through the Senate. The EFF has an action alert on how you can tell your Senator exactly what you think of making it legal for the recording industry to install spyware on your box. The EFF's alert puts it succinctly, "The SPY Act is supposed to help stop spyware, deceptive adware, and other malicious software, but it is unlikely to do any good and could actually make things worse. If enacted, it would block lawsuits similar to the one EFF brought against Sony-BMG for infecting customers' computers with privacy-invasive copy protection."
The EFF did PC users a serious solid by slapping Sony for invading your machine through trojaned music CDs. This bill would essentially give the media industry carte-blanche to install what they wish any time you insert a disc you've paid for.
[via Boing Boing]
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Yayaja said 5:09PM on 6-13-2007
wow, this sounds like an deterrent to purchasing music legally. Oh well, yet ANOTHER reason among many to steal music.
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John said 9:14PM on 6-13-2007
Looks like I will just have to use a locked down linux box to be able to rip my music off the CD and transcode it into MP3 so I can play it wherever I want.
When will they learn, they are just pissing us off?
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John said 9:08AM on 6-14-2007
Post #1 says it all!
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liqwid said 4:17PM on 6-14-2007
I just read part of the Act. It doesn't start for another six years. By then we probably won't have CDs anymore, and things will be much more secure.
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