Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_Television_Promotion_Act
Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act
United States bill proposed in 2002
The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) (S. 2048) was a United States bill proposed in 2002[1] that would have prohibited any kind of technology that could be used to read digital content without digital rights management (DRM)—which prohibits copying and reading any content under copyright without permission of the copyright owner. The bill was known in early drafts as the Security Systems and Standards Certification Act (SSSCA) and was sometimes called the Consume But Don't Try Programming Act.