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| DATE | 2004-06-08 |
| FROM | Adam Kosmin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Old New I just want to get in the archives
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http://savetheinternet.us
Ruben Safir (ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com) wrote:
"
" Hello Everyone -
"
"
" I've given this a lot of thought over Shabboes (The Jewish Sabbath). It
" has definitely pervaded my dinner table.
"
" About 3 in the afternoon, it occurred to me that the real threat of the
" DMCA is not just that we can't play DVD's with Linux, or that the media
" it's is controlled by a ogonopoly of Media Giants, or that the future
" libraries in the the world are going to locked up for the privileged few
" and information is going to be controlled to a degree of stifling the
" free speech needed needed for the democratic process, what is a greater
" threat is that we are going to FURTHER loose control of our ability of
" present ideas and contribute to our society in meaningful ways.
"
" Rap Music, (which I hate) started in the basements of ghetto minorities,
" on the street. Without the ability to tape Rap music, and distribute it
" on cassette, which was the Rap media of choice in it's formative years
" of the early 1980's, it would have never seen the light of day.
"
" When theaters of the near future abandon traditional film, which is
" probably long overdue, for digital media, how is independent film makers
" going to MAKE films that people can see without projectors. If you
" don't have a legally acquired encryption key, you can not use the media
" media of choice for people to CREATE new works.To quote the fictional Character Hilton "Hammerhead" Kreiger, "The Plex
" supplies "em with conventional weapons, vidunits (currency) and American
" Plexpress Cards - (The Gangs) know the rules - No Aircraft, No Nukes,
" No combat in commercial zones -- and of course NO Suburban Adventurism
" (in their gang warfare). (In return the Plex gets back) Only the Highest
" raded Vidshow on 3 planets... the Plex makes a fortune in AD Revenues
" (and gambling bets).
"
" To control the content presented to the masses this severely is to
" control the education and reference of discussion discussion for future
" generations. Two of the most empowering thing to happen to mankind in
" civilized history is the development of the Printing Press, putting
" inexpensive books in the hands of millions, and the Internet, which
" makes worldwide publishing and communication inexpensive and
" instantane
" I have been one stupid dude over that last few years. I've watched
" technology after technology destroyed over the last decade by the wishes
" of media giants, and have allowed myself to be strung along by the media
" ous.industry and the computer software industry into apathy. I thought we
" were moving to a state of technological freedom with increasingly
" sufficticated hardware and software which improves presentation and
" creation, facilitating freedom of expression.
"
" Boy was I wrong, and a light is now going through my consciousness
" similar to the one that occurred the first time I joined a Compuserve
" Forum in the mid eighties, or the first time I ran Linux on my desktop
" and realized it works better than Windows, or the first time I got
" feedback from a Website I created. I'm realizing that what is the
" current status quo, as it is being presented to the public by large
" corporations, and the press, is actually a HINDRANCE to innovation and
" freedom of thought.
"
" The Internet was an Accident of the Government. Left to Corporate
" America, it would never had arrived. I an now communicating to a few
" hundred people using a technology -email invented over 3 decades ago and
" which came into the public mainstream only 2 years ago in a major way.
"
" Digital media has had to live with CDRW which is inferior to the Digital
" audiotape killed as a consumer product in the mid eighties. And the
" only computer system which can assure that people a free to innovate new
" products and software, is being threatened to it's core by the DMCA.
"
" All Intel has to do (and this is not to pick on Intel which I believe is
" one of the better companies out their in terms of fairness), is to put
" an encryption around the Bios of a computer which permits only licensed
" OS's to run on it, and anything like a future Linux is dead before it
" begins.
"
" After all this consideration, I jumped on the net this evening, and sure
" enough, it's like the entire community is working through this problem
" in the same way, and drawing the same conclusions.
"
" http://linuxtoday.com/stories/16556.html
"
" "What CSS lets the consortium do is determine who will make players, and
" on what terms, and who will provide content. If you can neither enccrypt
" or decrypt the bit stream, you are locked out of both markets. If you
" purchase a license to use the technology, then the consortium has a way
" of controlling your actions. Want to sell a player that doesn't honor
" region codes?. Hmm, maybe we'll revoke your license. Or maybe yes, of
" course, but you gotta charge three grand for it."
"
"
" This is EXACTLY what is happening, and what is instore for us in the
" future. This combined with AOL's announcement that they are no longer
" lobbying for open access on cable networks for all internet sites, means
" that the forces of business are making an increased power grab for
" control of access to information and services, which in turn destroys
" the free market economy and our person freedom.
"
" I am not happy enough to just join a Boycott, and petition a court
" room. We, the members of the Linux Community, and the open/free
" software movement, need to mature and take our seat of with the great
" powers of the world. We need a LOBBYING GROUP. We need to not only
" protect the rights of main stream American's and World citizens to
" innovate and communicate, but to lay down the legislative and policy
" agenda of the next hundred years to ensure that we are not victims of
" technology, but it's beneficiaries.
"
" --
" __________________________
" Brooklyn Linux Solutions
"
" So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
" that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
" proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
"
" DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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--
"Yes, Your Honor. Now, where we are so far, in at least my
line of reasoning, is I want to walk the Court through enough of our
complaint to help the Court understand that IBM clearly did contribute a
lot of the Unix-related information into Linux. We just don't know what
it is."
-- Kevin McBride SCO vs. IBM 12/05/03
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