{"id":498,"date":"2002-03-27T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2002-03-27T22:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/27\/this-cbdpta-bill-is-scary\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T07:50:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:50:41","slug":"this-cbdpta-bill-is-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/27\/this-cbdpta-bill-is-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"This CBDPTA bill is scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16337,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.politechbot.com\\\/p-03303.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160416031943\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.politechbot.com\\\/p-03303.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 06:27:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 06:35:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 06:35:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Just in case folks haven&#8217;t figured out how sweeping the Hollings-Feinstein bill, aka CBDTPA is, well, keep reading.<\/p>\n<p>  The CBDTPA says that if I were to write and sell this BASIC program&#8230;<\/p>\n<pre><code>10 INPUT A$\n20 PRINT A$\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>  &#8230;after the regulations take effect, I would be guilty of a federal felony. That&#8217;s up to five years in prison and up to a $500,000 fine. Distributing my two-line application without charging for it, either via handing out floppies or by posting it on a website would be at least a civil offense and, depending on the circumstances, a crime as well.<\/p>\n<p>  It&#8217;s no joke. CBDTPA regulates &#8216;any hardware or software that reproduces copyrighted works in digital form.&#8217; My program above does that, especially if my BASIC interpreter permits arbitrarily long strings.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Declan McCullagh, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politechbot.com\/p-03303.html\" title=\"Read the rest of this.\">&#8216;CBDTPA bans everything from two-line BASIC programs to PCs&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the article is well worth reading, also. This bill is just plain scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case folks haven&#8217;t figured out how sweeping the Hollings-Feinstein bill, aka CBDTPA is, well, keep reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042,2038],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}