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The Register - UK gov't reveals Big Brother bill: "Yesterday the UK Government published details of its plans to allow law enforcement agencies to access email correspondence... Failure to hand over a text-only version of a suspected email or give the police access to the encryption key you are using could result in a two year prison sentence. Another area of concern is that the police will be able to grant their own warrants to use the proposed Act's powers to put someone under surveillance." That this legislation could even be proposed is a sad day for liberty. You can bet there are U.S. congress critters drooling over this. Now what was it you do to cows that foam at the mouth?
NY Times - Tough Court Fight Expected Over DVD Code "Judge Kaplan, to put it mildly, did not endorse the view that DeCSS was strictly a way to play back movies. At one point during the hearing, he asked sarcastically: 'What do you think people are going to do with DeCSS, put it on floppy disks and use it to fertilize the garden?'" The Times thinks the fight in New York will be over the constitutionality of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Kaplan apparently believes that DeCSS violates DMCA. Someone remind me of why his opinion matters? It certainly doesn't matter to me.