[Patents] Once more on Euro-DMCA

[halber@timsi.com.pl (Jozef Halbersztadt)]

Sunday, September 09, 2001 7:50 PM, Axel H Horns wrote:

> Please see also:
>
> ------- Forwarded message follows -------
> Date sent:      Sat, 8 Sep 2001 22:11:44 -0400
> From:           Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
> To:             cryptography@wasabisystems.com
> Subject:        Re: Sen. Hollings plans to introduce DMCA sequel:
> The SSSCA
>
> The complete text of the draft SSSCA (2.5 MB PDF file) is now
online:
> http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/sssca-draft.pdf
> http://www.nullify.org/sssca-draft.pdf
> http://sites.inka.de/risctaker/sssca-draft.pdf
> http://www.parrhesia.com/sssca-draft.pdf
>
> John Young has put his amazing OCR software to work and has posted
> this HTML text of the entire bill: http://cryptome.org/sssca.htm
>
> An anti-SSSCA petition is here:
> http://www.PetitionOnline.com/SSSCA/petition.html
>
> Slashdot thread on the SSSCA:
> http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/08/0238200.shtml
>
> -Declan
>

Since March there is a group and mailing list that is involved in the
current battle over European digital copyright. www.eurorights.org

The development in the US is mainly driven by corporate interests but
there is also a contribution of security paranoia. Look at tribune of
the enlighten establishment "Foreign Affairs".
Virtual Defense by James Adams in From May/June 2001
SUMMARY: The United States may be an uncontested military superpower,
but it remains defenseless against a new mode of attack: information
warfare. As the military, the private sector, and Washington grow
increasingly dependent on computers and information networks, they
also grow more vulnerable to cyber-attack. Cyberspace is becoming the
new front line of warfare, and private citizens are the new prime
target. U.S. policymakers and technology entrepreneurs must wake up to
this threat and build a wall of defense -- now. www.foreignaffairs.org

Jozef Halbersztadt