Congress Demands Hollywood Resolve Copy Protection Disputes

Hollywood and the makers of TVs, PCs and other electronics were told Thursday that they must resolve their differences over future copy protection technologies or Congress will. The parties have argued for several years over which should be responsible for preventing piracy of digitally distributed movies and other content.. . . Hollywood and the makers of TVs, PCs and other electronics were told Thursday that they must resolve their differences over future copy protection technologies or Congress will. The parties have argued for several years over which should be responsible for preventing piracy of digitally distributed movies and other content.

Seeing little progress, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., called a hearing Thursday to press the industries to reach an agreement. A solution is needed to increase the quality and quantity of content available via high-speed Internet and digital TV, he says.

"If more content were available online, more consumers would come," said Hollings, who plans to soon introduce legislation setting a deadline of one year to 18 months for the industries to agree.

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