The RIAA is reportedly changing its tune on the Hollings Bill, legislation that would require new technologies to be approved by entertainment companies before they were allowed into the marketplace. The WSJ is reporting that they've joined Intel and the Business Software Alliance in opposing the bill.
The UK Inquirer's coverage of this suggests that Intel opposes this kind of thing generally, but while Intel's senior management team has been quite critical of technology mandates, Intel itself has been an active agitant for and ringleader of the Broadcast Flag issue, and their efforts have been instrumental to bringing this terrible idea — which accomplishes the same ends as the Hollings Bill — to the FCC, WIPO and Congress.
