Z:gnu-www-ja-misinterpreting-copyright--8cac23-The media companies are not sa/en

The media companies are not satisfied yet. In 2001, Disney-funded Senator Hollings proposed a bill called the &ldquo;Security Systems Standards and Certification Act&rdquo; (SSSCA)[1], which would require all computers (and other digital recording and playback devices) to have government-mandated copy-restriction systems. That is their ultimate goal, but the first item on their agenda is to prohibit any equipment that can tune digital HDTV unless it is designed to be impossible for the public to &ldquo;tamper with&rdquo; (i.e., modify for their own purposes). Since free software is software that users can modify, we face here for the first time a proposed law that explicitly prohibits free software for a certain job. Prohibition of other jobs will surely follow. If the FCC adopts this rule, existing free software such as GNU Radio would be censored.