[olug] congressman Terry needs more attention

[Eric Lusk]

Unfortunately, some of the mosre extreme measures the
MPAA and RIAA are advocating apply to MUCH more than
just TV.
If some of these measures went through, you'd be
paying huge fees just to copy your home movies from
your hard drive, or VHS tape, to DVD.
Not to mention that we'd be dealing with proprietary
hardware, which would mean software developers would
have to pay fees to write any programs that would run
on "secure" hardware.  That would bring the cost of
both hardware and software up, and could lead to the
end of free software altogether.

--- jman at neonramp.com wrote:

> Correction.
> 
> One solution would be to stop watching so much TV
> (stop getting plugged in). It feeds the marketing
> campaigns that fuel such movements. Loss of revenue.
> TV is good for all and all good, not.
> 
> It is like a drug. We all want to get another fix
> without the pushers control. If it wasn't money for
> them they wouldn't pursue it. If it isn't a fix for
> us we would not fight it.
> 
> My TV consumption a week = < 2 hours. Transform the
> news paper into an electronic form would they bitch
> about copyright? Like most services that produce
> paper publications. They put online their pubs in
> limited fashion and offer subsciption services for
> the complete service. It is lost revenue for the
> publisher to place the entire piece online
> subjecting themselves to lost revenue w/o
> advertisements from hyjacked stories broadcast in
> email etc.
> 
> Forgive me if I am out of line. It is not my
> intention.
> 
> John
> 
> Neal Rauhauser wrote ..
> > 
> >   Congress is at it again - more attempts at
> welfare for MPAA and RIAA
> > members. Our very own congressman Terry is one of
> the people behind this:
> > 
> >
>
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr001=03qen86ok1.app2a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=181
> > 
> >   An email counts as one voter, a call counts as
> ten, and a faxed or 
> > mailed letter counts as a hundred. Don't be a
> sissy - take the time to
> > write a letter and fax it to him.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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