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EFF Urges Support for Rep. Boucher's DMCRA

Posted by chrisd on from the put-up-or-shut-up dept.

DarkSparks writes "The EFF is urging everyone to contact their Representatives and ask them to co-sponsor Representative Rick Boucher and John Doolittle's recently introduced Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA, H.R. 5544), which would introduce labelling requirements for usage-impaired "copy-protected" compact discs, as well as make several key amendments to the DMCA, including affirming the right of scientific research into technology protection measures and affirming the right of citizens to circumvent technology measures to gain access to copyrighted works they've purchased."

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  1. Technology is used as a shield. by Big+Mark · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quote:

    "affirming the right of scientific research into technology protection measures"

    This reminds me of all the people who use shadow, md5 passwords yet use something realy obvious as their root login. Does guessing their pets' name count as research?

  2. EFF Endored Legislation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The kiss of death. It will die in committee.

  3. Re:You Need an Overthrow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, whoever heard of a small plane crashing in bad weather. That's unpossible!

    Hey, I've got a question for you - Does the shiny side of the foil point inward to keep the brainwaves in your head, or outward to reflect the government mind-control rays?

  4. Labeling proposal by Alex+Belits · · Score: 4, Funny

    Subsection (c) establishes new labeling requirements for these non-standard compact discs. Among other things, a label prominently affixed to the front of the packaging must notify a consumer that the disc might not play properly in ordinary consumer electronics products and might not be recordable to the hard drive of a personal computer.
    The label must be at least 120mm in diameter, and consist of full-size reproduction of the image presently located at http://goatse.cx and a black text "J4ck v413n7i 0wnz joo!" in 20mm high and 12mm wide letters in Helvetica font with at least 1mm wide lines, repeated three times 5mm from the rim of the label.

    --
    Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
  5. Maybe this is good Re:EFF Endored Legislation? by Joey7F · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it is Endored by the EFF, I assume that means that Hillary Rosen and Jack Valenti will end up blowing on the second deathstar. That could definitely be a good thing...

    However, it could be a bad thing if the only song we can listen to in the future is "Yub Yub"

    Anyone notice that Yub Yub is "Buy Buy" backwards?

    --Joey

  6. Re:DMCA?!! by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    > There's a quote by Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
    >
    >Unfortunately, I think it's bullshit. The only thing that changes the world nowadays is money and weapons.

    Au contraire. Margaret Mead was right. Ask Hitler and Goebbels. Or Lenin and Stalin. Or Mao.

    Whenever I see a "Successories" or other inspirational/motivational poster with that saying on it, I go back to my cube, print out a photo of one of the aforementioned big-body-count heavies (my favorite's Hitler and company drafting the Final Solution), and attach it nearby with a Post-It note reading "...and that's a bug, not a feature."