[lug] Colorado "Super-DMCA" bill impacts on Internet, privacy, security

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Neal McBurnett wrote:

>Colorado bill HB03-1303, "Unlawful Telecom Access Cell Phone Crime",
>is being pushed by the Entertainment industry, in this case the MPAA.
>Edward W. Felten <felten at cs.princeton.edu>, (609) 258-5906, Associate
>Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, says that the
>model legislation would have the possibly unintended effect of
>outlawing critical and popular Internet technologies like NAT (Network
>Address Translation).  Many say that it clearly would outlaw Vitual
>Private Networks (VPN), private email (TLS-SMTP), etc.
>
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This links to a story in The Register on a similar laws effect in 
Michigan on steganography research.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30231.html