The San Francisco Chronicle has a story on the proposed Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act of 2002. The bill “would give the entertainment and technology industries up to 18 months to agree to a technological standard that would halt the spread of unauthorized copying of digital video and audio.
The bill would require this on any ‘digital media device’ — any hardware or software that reproduces, converts, retrieves or accesses copyrighted works in digital form. Penalties for altering the standard would be $200 to $2,500 per violation.”
