Plan to Curb OSS in the EU Uncovered

[Basil Chupin]

On 10/10/2010 07:39, Michael Haney wrote:
> Wikileaks releases documents showing plans by Microsoft and other
> organizations to curb open source and free software in the European
> Union.
>
> http://blog.javier-carrete.com/2010/10/wikileaks-publishes-documents-on-plan.html
>    

Have you heard of the ACTA - Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - which 
for years was being negotiated in secret and which, naturally, has been 
intitiated by America back in 2006 between it and Japan and now being 
pushed on to the rest of the world, including my own stupid country? The 
final draft of this Agreement, negotiated in secret, is now available here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agreement

But then have you also seen this?:

Seeing the big picture on content

The cracking of another content protection technology, comes as no 
surprise to Bill Thompson

The only real surprise about the news that HDCP has been compromised was 
that it took so long.

The 'high bandwidth copy protection' scheme has been in use since 2004 
even though the possibility that someone would be able to reconstruct 
the master key by examining HDCP-capable devices was known even before 
any systems were commercially available.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11380490

BC

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