First the DMCA, now the "Super DMCA"

From: Modemac <modemac@modemac.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Mon, Apr 21, 2003 8:49 PM

Next up on the agenda: a propsal to ban "unlawful communication
devices."

From: "Rev. Norle Enturbulata" <noearthlight2k@norhotmail.com>
Subject: New "Super DMCA" Nazi-Style Legislation Pending - Call to
Action
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:39:44 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <b80e90$ivn$1@sparta.btinternet.com>

* EFF Opposes State Level "Super-DMCAs"

Some States Pass, Others Consider Copyright Legislation

San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) last week
released a detailed analysis of the dangers posed by digital copyright
bills in individual states.

The product of stealth lobbying efforts by the Motion Picture
Association of America (MPAA), these new measures are aimed at
criminalizing the possession of what the MPAA calls "unlawful
communication and access devices," but are so broad that they could
ban critical security and privacy tools online as well as restrict
what machines you can connect to the cable, satellite, and Internet
lines in your home.

Because the bills are more extreme versions of the nationwide Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), pundits refer to them as "super-DMCA"
legislation.

Even before these activities crossed activists' radar, seven states
(Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania and
Wyoming) had already enacted them into law. Similar bills have been
introduced and are currently pending in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Massachusetts, Tennessee and Texas.

"The 'super-DMCA' measures represent special interest legislation that
dramatically expands the reach of the federal DMCA, which has already
put fair use, innovation, free speech and competition in peril," said
EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Fred von Lohmann.
"Communication service providers -- meaning ISPs, cable companies, and
providers of digital entertainment services -- can use this
legislation to restrict what you can connect to your Internet
connection and cable or satellite television lines and can ban a
variety of tools critical to protecting the anonymity and security of
Internet users."

EFF strongly opposes these state super-DMCA bills as unnecessary and
overbroad. The proposed bills represent the worst kind of special
interest legislation, sacrificing the public interest in favor of the
self-serving interests of one industry.

Links
For this release:
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/states/20030414_eff_sdmca_pr.php

EFF analysis of state "super-DMCA" bills:
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/states/200304_sdmca_eff_analysis.php

EFF state-level "Super DMCA" initiatives archive, with Action Alerts
for
people in affected states:
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/states/

EFF white paper on unintended consequences of the DMCA:
http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20030102_dmca_unintended_consequences.html

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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

I remember how vaudeville killed reading, completely, just like they
said it would, and radio killed vaudeville, completely, and movies
killed radio, and TV killed movies and radio, utterly, and radio killed
albums anyway, and tape decks killed them again, and cable killed
broadcast, and video rental killed the movies AND TV AND reading AND
theater AND radio, and now file-sharing might kill even VIDEO RENTALS.
Heck, if they kill file sharing, there won't be much left except
kill-filing. And if theyl take even THAT away from us, ONLY SPAM will
remain. That is when the SubGeniuses will SERIOUSLY start to take
action.

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From: Joe Cosby <joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com>

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:10:48 -0400, "Rev. Ivan Stang"
<stang@subgenius.com> wrote:

>I remember how vaudeville killed reading, completely, just like they
>said it would, and radio killed vaudeville, completely, and movies
>killed radio, and TV killed movies and radio, utterly, and radio killed
>albums anyway, and tape decks killed them again, and cable killed
>broadcast, and video rental killed the movies AND TV AND reading AND
>theater AND radio, and now file-sharing might kill even VIDEO RENTALS.
>Heck, if they kill file sharing, there won't be much left except
>kill-filing. And if theyl take even THAT away from us, ONLY SPAM will
>remain. That is when the SubGeniuses will SERIOUSLY start to take
>action.

Some prophet you turn out to be.

No, the next big killer will be Vaginaround (tm), with
VirtuaSensosmell sound. Then we won't even leave the house.

--
Joe Cosby
http://joecosby.home.mindspring.com

"Distrust all in whom
the impulse to punish is powerful."
- Nietzsche

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