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Tuesday, July 30

What's the deal in Congess in the US? Every bill going through seems to have an ill-informed, lobbyist-inspired attack on freedoms on the internet. The latest? Senator Biden's bill has a stealth amendment that will (probably accidentally) criminalise fixing problems with my own PC when it involves digital rights management. For example, I find the new CD I bought won't play on my laptop. I find a particular sequence of steps lets me make it play. I tell my friends. Unknown to me, it was in fact a DRM feature I overcame via one of its implementation bugs. Result? 5 years in jail. The Register has even less moderate language for the issue...

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