MESSAGE
| DATE | 2003-02-26 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Congressman Weiner exposes true goals on fair use
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This is very fustrating. It's time for NY Fair Use to attack Wiener at home.
And it needs to be at his public meeting places. Call his home office and get a list of
pblic meetings and apearances, and we will start hitting him home.
I'm sick of this. If we don't get a result, we'll get someone to run for office against him.
This is just evil. When we spoke to him, Joe and I, he was clueless about the very nature of the technology.
We're going to start kicking down door and going after the root of the DRM problem.
Ruben
On 2003.02.26 16:45 vin wrote:
>
> Has the Sony-Betamax case been reversed?
>
> http://news.com.com/2100-1028-986143.html?tag=fd_top
>
> Under a 1997 law called the No Electronic Theft Act (NET Act), it is a federal
> crime to willfully share copies of copyrighted products such as software,
> movies or music with anyone if the value of the work exceeds $1,000 or if the
> person hopes to receive files in return. Violations are punishable by one
> year in prison, or if the value tops $2,500, "not more than five years" in
> prison.
>
> >So I can make copies of television programs on videotape,
> >or copies of music from LP records (remember them?) onto
> >cassette tapes (anyone remember 8-track?), and drive them
> >to my brother's house, and I'm OK according to the Sony
> >Betamax decision, yet if I own the entire collection of
> >Led Zeppelin LP records, but can't figure out the fstab
> >settings to get my damn CD-burner to work, I can't download
> >the same tracks that I already own on LP records from my
> >brother's computer using a p2p file sharing program?
> >This makes me a criminal?
>
> >Is this really where Congressman Weiner stands?
>
> On Wednesday, members of the committee expressed frustration that no criminal
> prosecutions had taken place yet and universities have not been sufficiently
> aggressive. "We are reaching the end of our ropes. There is a consensus that
> has emerged," said Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. "Virtual unanimity should be a
> message to those testifying today that we are reaching a point at a
> bipartisan level that we want to stop this illegal activity."
>
> Vin.
>
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