MPAA Spurns Digital Copyright Plans
Ted Bridis,
Associated Press,
Jan 14, 2003
Technology vendor groups and the recording industry have reached an agreement in the United States. The recording industry as agreed that it will not lobby for legislation requiring that digital rights be enforced in all new technology. In return, the technology companies agreed to lobby to give recording companies permission to hack file exchange systems they suspect are being used to copy copyrighted material. The film industry, meanwhile, has rejected the compromise and consumer groups are unimpressed. As a commentator in DRM Watch wrote today, "The time-honored process for evolving the U.S. copyright laws, so well documented by Jessica Litman in her book, Digital Copyright, is afoot again: two factions representing influential special interests have negotiated an "offline" compromise that ignores or only coincidentally represents the interests of other factions."
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