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| DATE | 2003-08-12 |
| FROM | From: "Steve Milo"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Fwd: [NMLUG] OT Law. (fwd)
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I recently responded to a topic about copying music on the New Mexico
Linux Users Group.
Anyone care to comment on what I sent?
Let me know if I've lost my marbles, am right on the money or somewhere
in between.
Thanks,
Steve M
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:20:42 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Steve Milo
> Reply-To: nmlug-at-nmlug.org
> To: nmlug-at-nmlug.org
> Subject: [NMLUG] OT Law.
>
>
>
> Hello all, I was hoping I could have introduced myself under better
> cirucmstances but I have strong beliefs on this topic.
>
> There some fundamental flaws with how the DMCA is currently structured.
>
> I will give a shining example.
>
> I know a Unix system admin who had resigned from NYU because NYU's
> dental
> school has decided to employ 'ebooks' instead of regular text books.
>
> The students are forced to pay a yearly fee *every* year if they want
> to
> keep their text books. That is, a yearly fee forever. Also the
> students
> are restricted from sharing their 'ebooks' with other students.
> The DMCA protects this company with the current copyright laws, all
> this
> company does is transfer regular text books to an electronic form. In
> this case a cdrom. So in essence this is one copyright law protecting
> yet another copyright law, one layer ontop of another.
>
> The basic premise of a free society is the free exchange of
> information,
> how do you think our beloved operating system has managed to mature to
> the
> level it has today? How do you think our country as a whole has
> managed
> to advance so quickly in just two hundred years? The citizens werent
> extorted into paying for every last bit of gaining knowledge.
> Why is it that religion makes such inroads in our culture? Go to
> just about any hotel and you will find a bible in the table next to the
> bed. You can read it without paying a licensning fee.
>
> Yes artists should be paid for their efforts (personally I think they
> should put out something worth paying for first), however that
> protection
> should be like the contsitution intended. In limited scope and time,
> they were well aware back then how important information sharing is.
>
> The milk man argument can be used in the case of our public libraries.
> If we go into a public library we are taking away the ability for
> publishers to earn a living....or are we? If I were to find a book I
> truly enjoyed I would most likely go out and buy a copy for myself.
> I personally dont go to public libraires anymore because sadly it has
> become hard to find anything worth reading.
>
> Music sharing.
> I know for a fact that if someone where to share a song
> that they enjoyed with me and I liked it I would go out and buy an
> original copy. I have done it before. No! I am *not* taking away an
> income source from anyone in that food chain. I resent being
> blackmailed
> into buying something without trying it first. I go to a jean store, I
> try the jeans on before I buy. Lets say a friend of mine has a pair
> of
> jeans he doesnt need. My friend gives them to me, I dont have to pay a
> relicensing fee for ownership transfer. I dont pay a relicesing fee
> for
> borrowing that pair of jeans.
>
> Milk is a poor example because it is something that can be consumed.
> Gasonline can be consumed. We pay for the product, if we let someone
> borrow our car they dont have to pay a licensing fee for the gasonline
> they use.
>
> No, I have a problem with the way our current copyright law are
> structured. Information is *not* a chicken and the egg dilemna.
> Information comes from a person defining an abstraction.
>
> Our current copyright laws protect only big corporations who have
> a vested interest in monopolizing that.
> Perhaps the federal goverment should implement a beurau that will
> license
> every citizen for the priveledge of using the english language.
> After all how is any of this information being define? Not through
> smoke signals.
>
> Lasly, let me introduce myself properly.
> My name is Steve Milovidov, I'm from Brooklyn NY and I have been in
> Belen
> for about 8 months. I was employed as a perl/shell script writer
> programmer on Wall Street in NYC. I was laid off in December and
> decided
> to come here to stay with my mom for a while. I feel strongly about
> Open Source Software because our industry is being used as a political
> tool. I'm looking for work in the Linux field.
>
> Thanks for listening to my rant,
> Steve M
>
>
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