CBDTPA / SSSCA Won't Be Passed This Year, Say Leahy
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ryuzaki0
on from the savior-graceful dept.
filrock writes "It looks like we'll have a little breathing room before the CBDTPA/SSSCA becomes law. Senator Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is against the bill. Read the article on Wired. Good to see someone in the Senate with some common sense."
Don't let your guard down
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chennes
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This only delays it a year, which is a notoriously short amount of time. We can't say to ourselves "Good - now I can go back to bed." This give all of us another year to deluge our representatives with letters expressing the danger of this legislation. We can't keep relying on people like senator Leahy to save our asses for us. WRITE!!
Re:Good, but not the end of things
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Anonymous Coward
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Speaker (who decides where bills go) is Republican and is known to be tightly linked with Hollywood
Except that the vast majority of the sponsors of this bill are Democrats. As were the big cheeses behind the DMCA.
I understand why you think that Republicans are evil incarnate. I can't understand why you apparently don't feel the same way about Democrats.
After the election...
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JordanH
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If it comes up next year, it will be after the midterm election. Congressmen are a bit more easily swayed by grass-roots campaigns before the election.
Thank you Senator Leahy
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jmorris42
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A Democrat that still believes in the Constituition! Just shows they aren't all like Fritz "the Senator from Disney" Hollings. Keep writing those cards and letters folks, but send them to the Senator from Vermont in the form of thank you notes. He will now be the subject of extreme lobbying efforts by Hollywood and the DNC so he could use some encouragement.
-- Democrat delenda est
Interesting...
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lie+as+cliche
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...considering the source. Isn't Wired owned by Viacom, which also owns Paramount / Blockbuster / Showtime / UPN etc.? How nice to be reassured by corporate film interests that we can stop worrying about copy protection initiatives for a while.
Leahy is an oddity in Congress. He's someone who seems to have his principles and sticks to them. He really seems to understand that there's such a thing as the First Amendment.
I wonder if there's a chance that Slashdot could do an interview with him. I'd like to see that happen.
-- That light you see at the end of the tunnel might be from an oncoming train.
This really wasn't the point
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Anonymous Coward
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The point of this bill wasn't to get passed, it was to make the next bills concerning this topic look less radical. I'm not going to find the link but in a recent cnet article they said how "Fritz" Hollings was a powerful influence because of his ability to point out an extreme and then get an alternative that's not quite as radical passed.
Heres what we need to do folks
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HanzoSan
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We need a fund, slashdot or some group can setup a fund so we can all donate 10 bucks or so, to a fund, this money money will be used for advertisements. Instead of petitions we need donations which advertise our point of view to the public and tell the public which politicians are on our side and which arent.
We can raise the money online, through rallies, etc etc
We can get this money. It takes a group to colllect the money, a banner for hundreds or thousands of sites to post all over the web linking to this, and just hang the banner on your site. And of course IRL donations
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Re:Heres what we need to do folks
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CokeBear
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Its time to act. We need to collect money for ads
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HanzoSan
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Someone set up a non profit of some sort, allow us to donate money, I'll donate $5, everyone here donate $5, then when morpues and others go down we link to that site, millions donate $5, next thing you know we will have millions of dollars.
We use this money to create ads, the ads will tell the public whats going on, how they wont have freedom on their computer anymore. Put the ads on MTV, and on shows college kids watch, let them start a real grassroots movement.
We just need to get the word out.
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That wont work
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HanzoSan
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Because the Democrats could do the same thing using Enron and other companies. You act like only the Democrats are puppets. Doing that would be commiting suicide for the republicians because the democrats will do the same thing, and both sides will lose out to a third party.
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Re:I think it would.
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MAXOMENOS
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Enron isn't really relevant to the lives of most voters -- or at least they don't think it's relevant, which amounts to the same thing for political purposes. The collapse of Enron really has no effect on the life of the average American.
That's going to vary by geography. The Enron debacle has created a major mess here in Oregon, where PGE (an Enron company) increased our rates 30% just prior to the colapse (coincidence?) and thousands of people lost their retirement savings. That and the rotten economy (8% unemployment, lots of empty store fronts) are going to hurt Sen. Gordon Smith's (R-OR) chances in November.
Your average voter in, say, Kansas probably won't care about Enron either way. It's just too complicated.
Similarly, the Republicans will be nuts to play the CBDTPA card; unless El Rushbo picks his words very carefully, most GOP faithful won't have the first damn clue what the hell CBDTPA even does. They (like most Democrat faithful) might assume that it's there to make cable TV cheaper or to put criminals out of work. Some of 'em might even say it's no big deal, since everyone uses Windows anyway.
Consider This FUD!!!
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IQ
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This looks like a classic bit of diversion. OK Geeks its ok now - stop making so much noise. Then when you lease expect it... Am I paranoid? No. I just know that Hollywood paid Lots of Dinero for this bill. And it will pass. Just when you least expect it. Maybe it will be the House version this time with Yet Another Acronym Crap sprinkled on top.
Re:What are his motives?
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RussP
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Thanks for that information. That says it all. How many ignorant Slashdot readers consider Leahy a champion of the Free Speech when he is a co-sponsor of a CFR bill that tramples the First Amendment? Amazing!
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This only delays it a year, which is a notoriously short amount of time. We can't say to ourselves "Good - now I can go back to bed." This give all of us another year to deluge our representatives with letters expressing the danger of this legislation. We can't keep relying on people like senator Leahy to save our asses for us. WRITE!!
Speaker (who decides where bills go) is Republican and is known to be tightly linked with Hollywood
Except that the vast majority of the sponsors of this bill are Democrats. As were the big cheeses behind the DMCA.
I understand why you think that Republicans are evil incarnate. I can't understand why you apparently don't feel the same way about Democrats.
If it comes up next year, it will be after the midterm election. Congressmen are a bit more easily swayed by grass-roots campaigns before the election.
What this means is that we really need to spend the time getting organized and involved.
A Democrat that still believes in the Constituition! Just shows they aren't all like Fritz "the Senator from Disney" Hollings. Keep writing those cards and letters folks, but send them to the Senator from Vermont in the form of thank you notes. He will now be the subject of extreme lobbying efforts by Hollywood and the DNC so he could use some encouragement.
Democrat delenda est
...considering the source. Isn't Wired owned by Viacom, which also owns Paramount / Blockbuster / Showtime / UPN etc.? How nice to be reassured by corporate film interests that we can stop worrying about copy protection initiatives for a while.
Leahy is an oddity in Congress. He's someone who seems to have his principles and sticks to them. He really seems to understand that there's such a thing as the First Amendment.
I wonder if there's a chance that Slashdot could do an interview with him. I'd like to see that happen.
That light you see at the end of the tunnel might be from an oncoming train.
The point of this bill wasn't to get passed, it was to make the next bills concerning this topic look less radical. I'm not going to find the link but in a recent cnet article they said how "Fritz" Hollings was a powerful influence because of his ability to point out an extreme and then get an alternative that's not quite as radical passed.
We need a fund, slashdot or some group can setup a fund so we can all donate 10 bucks or so, to a fund, this money money will be used for advertisements. Instead of petitions we need donations which advertise our point of view to the public and tell the public which politicians are on our side and which arent.
We can raise the money online, through rallies, etc etc
We can get this money. It takes a group to colllect the money, a banner for hundreds or thousands of sites to post all over the web linking to this, and just hang the banner on your site. And of course IRL donations
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
Someone set up a non profit of some sort, allow us to donate money, I'll donate $5, everyone here donate $5, then when morpues and others go down we link to that site, millions donate $5, next thing you know we will have millions of dollars.
We use this money to create ads, the ads will tell the public whats going on, how they wont have freedom on their computer anymore. Put the ads on MTV, and on shows college kids watch, let them start a real grassroots movement.
We just need to get the word out.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
Because the Democrats could do the same thing using Enron and other companies. You act like only the Democrats are puppets. Doing that would be commiting suicide for the republicians because the democrats will do the same thing, and both sides will lose out to a third party.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
That's going to vary by geography. The Enron debacle has created a major mess here in Oregon, where PGE (an Enron company) increased our rates 30% just prior to the colapse (coincidence?) and thousands of people lost their retirement savings. That and the rotten economy (8% unemployment, lots of empty store fronts) are going to hurt Sen. Gordon Smith's (R-OR) chances in November.
Your average voter in, say, Kansas probably won't care about Enron either way. It's just too complicated.
Similarly, the Republicans will be nuts to play the CBDTPA card; unless El Rushbo picks his words very carefully, most GOP faithful won't have the first damn clue what the hell CBDTPA even does. They (like most Democrat faithful) might assume that it's there to make cable TV cheaper or to put criminals out of work. Some of 'em might even say it's no big deal, since everyone uses Windows anyway.
Finding God in a Dog
This looks like a classic bit of diversion. OK Geeks its ok now - stop making so much noise. Then when you lease expect it... Am I paranoid? No. I just know that Hollywood paid Lots of Dinero for this bill. And it will pass. Just when you least expect it. Maybe it will be the House version this time with Yet Another Acronym Crap sprinkled on top.
Adults are obsolete children. - Dr. Seuss
Didn't the DMCA pass by voice vote, in the dead of night?
Yes, along with the Mickey Mouse Monopoly Extension Act.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Thanks for that information. That says it all. How many ignorant Slashdot readers consider Leahy a champion of the Free Speech when he is a co-sponsor of a CFR bill that tramples the First Amendment? Amazing!
I watch Brit Hume on Fox News