03-22-2006, 01:11 PM
This is a bad law. There are so many provisions in it that are totally terrible, for example, it does away with Fair Use rights totally, this would ban educational institutions from showing a movie or clips from a movie in class unless that movie has been shown on TV. It does not do awy with DRM, it merely opens the DRM to allow interopability. It allows the ability to stipulate how many copies can legally be generated. That amount could be set to zero, so no backups allowed. Also, the way it's written, it could be used to ban FTP, e-mail an web software, as that can be used to transmit illegally copied entertainment. But even though it bans such copying, it does not lift the surcharge added to CD-R's and DVD-R's to compensate the entertainment industry for losses potentially suffered by copying.