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Alan Cox Attacks the European DMCA
forged writes "The Register already reported Alan Cox's involvement against the proposed European Union Copyright Directive before. Today, Alan Cox has issued a wake up call to the Linux community amid concerns that the pending EUCD could stymie open source development.
"The directive, which was approved last year, extends European copyright legislation so that it is even more restrictive than America's controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)."" If you haven't joined the EFF (or the equivalent in your country) , now might be a good time.
How is this news? About every person and slashdotter I know hates any form of the DMCA anywhere.
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
...Should Alan Cox start a fight in all countries, or should he just deal with Linux and let the fights go on with diplomats and politicians?
Besides, how much power does he have outside the internet? Leave the fights to the popular, not the techies.
Go up to a non-techie type and ask them about "Alan Cox" (they'll probably giggle for reasons you'll find at score:-1).
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Well if this passes I have ONE single POSITIVE thing that will come from it.
All the EuroSlashdotters will have to shut the hell up about there being NO freedom in the USA, "Just look at the DMCA"
The difference I might add that in some European countries it will be Illegal to speak out against it to ANY extent they want ( Not talking about violent action, talking like that COULD get you in trouble even in the US). Here we can bitch and moan to our hearts content, and actually DO something about it. There, once its law forget it.......
The DMCA isnt really that bad in itself, I am serious, the problems are simple and 2 fold, 1 its open to interpratation by people (judges) that dont have a clue about IP or technology issues. 2 The way it is being used as a tool of greed. Not one of the damm DMCA letters I've seen would hold a grain of salt. But people are afraid, its not the law its the way its being weilded.
Sig went tro...aahemmm.....fishing........
Isn't that an offshoot of Logged-in Anonymous Bunch of Internet Abusers (LABIA)?
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!