CBDTPA / SSSCA Won't Be Passed This Year, Say Leahy
Posted by
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
by
chennes
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· Score: 5, Insightful
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:Don't let your guard down
by
SomeoneYouDontKnow
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· Score: 5, Informative
And don't forget that this thing could still find its way into another bill as an amendment. That's how the CDA was passed, as an emendment to the 1996 telecom act.
OT: If one of the admins is reading this, could you go in and delete or modify the post that screwed up the page formatting?
-- That light you see at the end of the tunnel might be from an oncoming train.
More common sense needed...
by
dciman
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· Score: 5, Informative
Now, someone in the congress should take notice to the obsurd proposal the RIAA has to charge extra fee to internet raido stations. The Screen Savers had the founder of WOLF FM on the other night talking abotu this issue and it amazed me. The guy does this out of his own pocket basically and already pays the normal fees that any other broadcast radio station pays. Now they want to charge him MORE than that, on a per user basis that is retroactive back to 1998!!! He would have to literally pay millions of dollars if he wanted to stay broadcasting.
This is all about the RIAA wanting to put indepent people out of business...period. They want to control every outlet that consumers have to get content.... and it is disturbing. People need to get their haeads out of their asses and stop this. Call your Senator daily....write letters....send email... and spread the work. We shoudn't have to deal with this "everything in the world must be copy protected crap."
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.
Fight it at the constituency...
by
loucura!
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· Score: 5, Funny
Most of the USian population could care less about time-shifting, or space-shifting, they don't care about fair use rights, they just want their entertainment in pre-packaged slices, like 'American' cheese.
Buuuuut...
Most of the population 'hates' pr0n, especially the Southern Baptist Convention and their ilk.
Too fight the CBDTPA, we should mount a campaign against it claiming that it protects the illicit profits of pornographers, after all, what is most traded on the Gnutella network?
-- Black and grey are both shades of white.
Heres what we need to do folks
by
HanzoSan
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· Score: 5, Insightful
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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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!!
Now, someone in the congress should take notice to the obsurd proposal the RIAA has to charge extra fee to internet raido stations. The Screen Savers had the founder of WOLF FM on the other night talking abotu this issue and it amazed me. The guy does this out of his own pocket basically and already pays the normal fees that any other broadcast radio station pays. Now they want to charge him MORE than that, on a per user basis that is retroactive back to 1998!!! He would have to literally pay millions of dollars if he wanted to stay broadcasting.
This is all about the RIAA wanting to put indepent people out of business...period. They want to control every outlet that consumers have to get content.... and it is disturbing. People need to get their haeads out of their asses and stop this. Call your Senator daily....write letters....send email... and spread the work. We shoudn't have to deal with this "everything in the world must be copy protected crap."
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.
Most of the USian population could care less about time-shifting, or space-shifting, they don't care about fair use rights, they just want their entertainment in pre-packaged slices, like 'American' cheese.
Buuuuut...
Most of the population 'hates' pr0n, especially the Southern Baptist Convention and their ilk.
Too fight the CBDTPA, we should mount a campaign against it claiming that it protects the illicit profits of pornographers, after all, what is most traded on the Gnutella network?
Black and grey are both shades of white.
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