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Another DMCA Attack Looms

Posted by timothy on from the dark-and-stormy-legislative-sessions dept.

ndege writes "In this Wired article, Rep. Rick Boucher is finally ready to try and dismantle a key part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, said last July that he wanted to amend the DMCA to permit certain 'fair uses' of digital content, such as backing up an audio CD by bypassing copy protection technology. In an interview on Thursday, Boucher said he now has sufficient support from the tech industry, librarians, and Internet activists."

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  1. Hey Rep. Boucher by Spackler · · Score: 5, Funny

    The best thing you could do for the DMCA, and copyright law in general, is to go down the hall and beat the crap out of Senator Fritz Hollings!

    1. Re:Hey Rep. Boucher by Rogerborg · · Score: 4, Funny
      • The best thing you could do for the DMCA, and copyright law in general, is to go down the hall and beat the crap out of Senator Fritz Hollings!

      That's a pretty atavistic attitude. Civilised people (even you colonial fellows) have evolved much more genteel methods to settle disputes: we debate them. It's simple and elegant: you pay someone to tell you what to say, you pay someone to tell the press what you said and how they should report it, and if all else fails, you pay someone to change the law to make you right. Er, wait, or perhaps that's the problem. Maybe you're onto something after all. ;)

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