I was reading through the text of the CBDTPA (Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act) and noticed that it specifically requires that “any software portion of such [DRM] standards is based on open source code”. Odd…

posted September 14, 2002 11:44 PM (Technology) #

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