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Saturday, January 25, 2003
New Group Joins Copy Controls Fight - Grant Gross, IDG News
A coalition of technology company heavyweights and consumer groups have joined the chorus of voices urging the U.S. government not to require anticopying schemes on PCs. The Alliance for Digital Progress (ADP), a lobbying group of 27 technology companies, consumer groups, and think tanks, was launched Thursday to oppose such mandates. It organized in response to lobbying by the Motion Picture Association of America, which seeks copy protection legislation from the U.S. Congress. Among the members of ADP are technology companies Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Apple. Participating consumer groups include Consumer Alert, DigitalConsumer.org, and 60 Plus Association.
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