Finally! Some good news

From this article:

The IT industry's giants including Intel will rally behind a bill to be announced by Congressman Rick Boucher in Washington DC, tomorrow morning.

Lofgren's proposed "Digital Choice And Freedom Act Of 2002" (DCFA) [summary ; full text] will ensure that consumers will be able to make copies, sell or reuse digital media they own; prohibits non-negotiable shrink wrap licenses and decriminalizes non-infringing circumvention devices.

Lets hope it gets through!!

Finally Intel et al realize that preventing people from doing what they want with their PCs is bad for the PC business. MS Word doesn't tax a Pentium, much less a Pentium 4. To do that you meed multimedia.

Fur spell cheque you meed Word.

It's dead already.

No bill with Freedom in the title has a hope since the PATRIOT ACT.