Wednesday, 13. November 2002
Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 12:37:47 AM CET
Fair use should not die
Digital TV
Large-scale copyright owners such as movie studios, record companies and book publishers promote digital copy protection as the key to successful Internet sales. Now, TV broadcasters are joining this bandwagon in pushing for digital broadcast TV copy protection. The FCC noticed a proposed rule-making for such protection on Aug. 9 (64 PTCJ 373, Aug. 16). Yet technological copy protection systems have been impotent against efforts of hackers—most recently, hackers determined that DVD copy protection could be defeated simply by a marker pen. For copy protection to succeed, it needs the force of law behind it, in the form of criminal penalties for anti-protection hacking.
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