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Thursday, October 03, 2002

More on the CBDTPA....If adopted, the CBDTPA would require hardware DRM built into nearly every kind of digital and computing device sold in the U.S. Ed Felten has launched Fritz's Hit List, a blog to enumerate the devices the bill would infect. Today's entry: digital hearing aids. (PS: Ed Felten is the Princeton CS professor who accepted a public challenge from the music industry to crack its DRM and was nearly prosecuted under the DMCA for publishing his research.)