big movie studios and record companies, so it makes sense that the bill is clueless about open source and PD software. Scary nonetheless. -----Original Message----- From: LFessen106(a)aol.com [mailto:LFessen106@aol.com] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 12:29 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: The Future End of Classic Computing <snip> OK, I just read the CBDTPA.. It'll never work even if it were to be passed and here's why... <snip> the act doesn't have any provision for open source or freeware, or PD goodies. The US nor any other country can effectively poliece/control the internet.<snip> There's no way a software encryption/decryption would work because you could not possibly keep the code from leaking out or being reverse engineered. <snip>