April 09, 2002

Don't Buy Hollywood's Broadband

Don't Buy Hollywood's Broadband Script [ BusinessWeek Online]

Hollings' bill isn't about helping consumers. It's about protecting Hollywood. And using the broadband mess to address the digital-copyright issue is just a ploy. Hollywood has already shown it isn't interested simply in protecting digital versions of copyrighted works -- it also wants to control how those works are used.

Posted by Doug Sauder at April 9, 2002 11:40 PM