August 5, 2002
NY Times: A Decision on Digital Television.
The F.C.C. also plans to address the explanation that major Hollywood studios give for why they have declined to release their most valuable movies and television shows in digital broadcast format: the lack of technology to prevent viewers from recording and copying the material onto the Internet.
PC World: Digital Copyright Law Under Attack--Again.
Since previous legal challenges to the DMCA have failed, there are two options left to deal with the law, he said. First, efforts could be made to repeal the law, but "that's not likely to happen," he said. "The only other way is to try to erode it away" with cases such as the Elcomsoft case.
NY Times: New Software (and Bosses) at AOL.
But many of the rest are America Online veterans, itching to return the service to its old glory, one they saw as focused on the user. And so the center of the new release, called version 8.0, will have a renewed focus on chat rooms and the other forms of interaction and self-expression that AOL calls its community.
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