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Content-Protection -- A Cause for Our Time
Society must not allow counterfeiters and data-pirates to rob originality of its due rewards. These agencies are active defenders of the rights of artists and content-creators: BSA, IACC, IIPA, MPAA, SPA, VSDA, WIPO, and U.S. Customs.
- BSA - Business Software Alliance
- 2001 L St. NW, Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20036
phone: (202) 872-5500 -- fax: (202) 872-5501
e-mail: software@bsa.org
web: <http://www.bsa.org/>
- IACC - International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition
- 1100 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 1150, Washington, D.C. 20036
phone: (202) 223-5728 -- fax: (202) 872-5848
e-mail: abbotg@ari.net
web: <http://www.ari.net/iacc/>
- IIPA - International Intellectual Property Alliance
- 1747 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 12th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20006
phone: (202) 833-4198 -- fax: (202) 872-0546
e-mail: smimet@iipa.com
web: (still really under construction) <http://www.iipa.com/>
- MPAA - Motion Picture Association of America
- 15503 Ventura Blvd., Encino, CA 91436
phone: (818) 995-6600 -- fax: (818) 382-1799
e-mail: pegge@mpaa.org
web: <http://www.mpa.org/>
- SPA - Software Publishers Association
- 1730 M St. NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20036
phone: (202) 452-1600 -- fax: (800) 731-7023
e-mail: pberuk@spa.org
web: <http://www.spa.org/>
- VSDA - Video Software Dealers Association
- 16530 Ventura Blvd., Suite 400, Encino, CA 91436
phone: (818) 385-1500 -- fax: (818) 385-0567
e-mail: vsdaoffice@vsda.org
web: <http://www.vsda.org/>
- WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization
- 34, chemin des Colombettes, 1211 GENEVA 20, Switzerland
phone: + 41 22/730 91 11 -- fax: + 41 22/733 54 28
cable: OMPI GENEVA -- telex: 412 912 ompi ch
web: (maintained by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) <http://www.uspto.gov/wipo.html>
Check out the IACC's hotlinks to related sites. Also:
last modified April 11, 1996, pasted into site-redesign 5/9/97
- There is a great inspector's homepage for U.S. CUSTOMS at <http://www.ag.net/~bobbjr/0901.html>.
- If you've got friends at the RIAA - Recording Industry Association of America - tell them to get a website!
1020 19th St. NW, Suite 200, Washington, D.C. 20036
phone: (202) 775-0101 -- fax: (202) 775-7253
- This sensational quote from Hack Watch News is posted at <http://www.iol.ie/~kooltek/euroex.html>:
"Things will change over the next few months though if Sky [Rubert Murdoch's satellite news+ organization] brings out its new 0A card. Then the pirates may be defeated - for a while. However, the problem is that nobody is sure how long the new card will remain unhacked. The most important lesson that the DSS broadcasters could glean from the European experience is that the cards have to be changed every six months. Otherwise it is certain that they will be hacked." (regarding a previous generation of VideoCrypt smart card; copyright 1995 Hack Watch News)
- For those interested in DVD, here are some sites of interest:
<http://www.ima.org/forums/imf/dvd/faq.html> for the Interactive Multimedia Association's DVD FAQ;
<http://www.unik.no/%7Erobert/hifi/dvd/> for overview of online resources;
<http://www1.usa1.com/%7Ephilk/dvd/dvd_spec.html> for a summary of the spec; and
<http://www.eia.org/> for the electronics industry's voice on DVD.
Philip Merrill |