MESSAGE
| DATE | 2006-06-06 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] 24 Hours to Save Internet Fair Use
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Everyone needs to call Congressman Weiners Office on this
matter. He in on that committee
The individual in charge of this area is named Ben Alfack?
Ruben
Washington DC Phone Number
1-202-225-6616
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:29:07PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> This is very fustrating because I have no idea how this worked out and I
> just got information on this at 6:20PM.
>
>
> In addition to that, since Mr Jay and Mr Brett has destroyed the foundation
> of NY Fair Use, we don't currently that mechanisms in place to respond rapidly
> to this. For example, we had a phone tag set up where teams of people would call
> each other to quickly mobilize phone calls to DC to put the breaks on something
> like this until it can be looked at further.
>
> This gets to the raw fundementals of political action which was ripped
> apart by the egos of Jay and Brett. They insisted on not doing the hard
> work which is needed to remain vigilant on a single issue, DRM and Fair Use,
> and instead insisted on doing what gave them personally the most amount of photo
> ops :ie to play wack the mole with every issue.
>
> If you want to be effective, you need to politically organized, everyone
> marching to the same tune, everyone reinforcing the same message, relentlessly
> plugging at every chance the same exact message.
>
>
> And then it takes a positive agenda. Not. what you don't want, but a
> legistlative agenda for what you do press, and relentlessly press. Otherwise
> crap like this happens because these greedy mother fuckers are mandated to
> never relent to making more profit for the company and if the result is that the
> internet ends, what do they give a shit.
>
> Ruben
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:13:30PM -0400, WWWhatsup wrote:
> >
> > 24 Hours to Save Internet Fair Use
> >
> > The entertainment industry has sneaked language into an obscure
> > copyright bill that could smash Internet fair use. The law implies
> > that licenses from copyright holders are needed for every digital
> > copy made in the transmission of digital media -- including cached
> > copies on servers or on your hard drive, and even temporary copies
> > in RAM. The wording is being debated in a House Judiciary
> > subcommittee on Wednesday. Don't let the music industry turn your
> > cache into their cash. Check below to see if your representative
> > is on the right committee, and call them now!
> >
> > http://action.eff.org/sira
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > WWWhatsup NYC
> > http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
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> __________________________
> 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
> http://fairuse.nylxs.com
>
> "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"
>
> "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming
> sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need
> the ability to participate in our own society."
>
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting
> http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients
> http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
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__________________________
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
http://fairuse.nylxs.com
"Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"
"The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming
sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need
the ability to participate in our own society."
http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting
http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/downtown.html - See the New Downtown Brooklyn....
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