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| DATE | 2002-07-26 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Re: Congressman Towns
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I believe Towns voted against the Patriot Act.
How does he feel about laws which make Minority kids felones
just because they mix some DRMed, DMCA protected music together
into a rap/DJ mix. It's not like none of the rappers have yet
been threatened and censored by vigorous copyright inforcement before.
This is such a black and white, pro minority issue. If your a mionority,
you have to be an idiot to want the RIAA and MPAA to control all the
music files on your computer.
Why is there such a large digital divide anyway?
Can you spell MICROSOFT
What's the way out of the digital divide
FREE SOFTWARE
There is no chance of closing the digital digide and empowering minorities with
current copyright legistlation and the disembowlment of property rights
to mix and reuse copyrighted material in the home on the computer.
If Towns is conceerned about the issue of the Digital Divide,
he better get with it and release that the problem becomes not costs,
but Freedom was systems become less and less expensive and more and
more controlled by "The Man" instead of the owner.
Ruben
On 2002.07.26 16:08 Billy wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 03:48:22PM -0400, Joe Grastara wrote:
> >
> > I've done some reading up on Ed Towns. He is completely pro DRM. In one
> > article he shamelessly turns the whole issue into a race/socio-economic
> > issue, giving some half-baked logic about rich white kids with broadband
> > connections reaping the benefits of napster while poor black kids in the
> > ghettos are stuck buying CDs at $20 a pop. Talk about obfuscating the
> > issue. This is exactly the kind word twisting and clouded, self-serving
> > reasoning we need to combat. I suggest we mount a serious effort to
> > either attempt to convince Rep. Towns to change his tune or to get him
> > voted out in the next election.
>
> I'll suggest that he invoke the 14th Amendment, and claim that federal
> dollars should bus CDRs full of MP3s into Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights,
> and food stamps should be usable for buying RIO Nomads and iPods.
>
> DVDs are region coded, but so are MP3s. They're _implicitly_
> region coded for white neighborhoods, simply because it takes
> buku bling-bling to get a DVD or MP3 player.
>
> Ed Towns for PRESIDENT!!!
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