They are trying to pass a law that pretty much would make it illegal to build your own PC because of piracy concerns and such.I think this is a joke,we are suppose to be the land of the free,check out the links and sign the petition if you want .

Petition= http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_p...-sign.cgi?SSSCA

And read the bill here

http://cryptome.org/sssca.htm


wildone

I read about this over at Hardforums - its crazy! I dont think it will pass though (I hope!)

I know ,but why even bring something like that up ,if it does pass ,I'm going to Canada ,or the U.K.

wildone

I can just imagine it - black market PC building!

LOL thats bad,they want you to run some type of spyware more or less ,and if you disable it in anyway up to 5 years in prison and a 500,000 fine,but if you disable the spyware ,hows it gonna tell on you?

Good point! Spyware on the spyware!

Well it would not only affect us on this side of the Pond but you blokes as well. As most of the tech research is done here and this bill would kill it. generally a bad deal all the way around.

When AMD, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, and others all band together and say "hell no" or "over our dead bodies" than you know it will never pass but it raises other questions. What kind of jacked up government do we have over here in the States that would even consider such a law.


anyhooooo..........................

BTW, not a bad place ya all got round here Ian and Mucks. :spin: Keep up the good work.

TheHeretic

I have to agree that this is one silly proposed law that isn’t going to pass. What intrigues me though, is whether there will be any fallout from this proposed legislation. This could possibly weaken the recording industries stance on a number of issues when the dust settles . . .

Speaking of record companies ,let me tell you how smart they are ,they are suppose to have some kind of protection on certain cd's to keep it from being saved in mp3 format and to reduce the piracy of music.The very first cd they used this technology on was released across sea's somewhere and was on the net before you could buy it here.But get this ,the only place they had this protection was in the U.S. releases, LOL,I mean they have to be smart to only release the copyright protection in the U.S. ,looks like they would have thought about the World Wide Web .

Do you think following device is legal?
http://www.xdimax.com/dvd/dvdredpro.html

I have this one for about 2 years. It is working fine and I do not fill I'm doing a crime making copies of my OWN DVD and VHS. I think preventing me from been able to copy DVD I've purchased and especially VHS ( considering they are loosing quality with time ) is in turn illigal.