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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. Hi! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hi :)

  2. You Need an Overthrow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Lobbying politicians doesn't work. They are mostly owned by corporations. And if they cause too much trouble for the status quo, they get assasinated, like Wellstone.

    "The People" of the USA had their country ripped out from under them long ago. Now they wallow in consumerism and fascist corporate brainwashing.

    You slashdot crowd really are a lazy and overpriviledged bunch. Thinking all you have to do is write a letter.

    WAKE UP. BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

  3. YOU FAIL IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    And in this story, you are perhaps the biggest FAILURE. Thats right, FAILURE. THIS IS NOT A FIRST POST.


    YOU FAIL IT!

  4. EFF Has Gone Naderite! by Centinel · · Score: -1, Troll
    I swear the EFF is becoming a statist Naderite organization masquerading under the guise of "comsumer advocacy."

    Fuck if I'll support an organization anymore that's gonna try to get more regulation and bureaucracy introduced in the name of "helping consumers."

    The record companies can label their shit any way they want and make it playable in any device they want..or don't want. Nobody holds a gun to our heads to listen to their crappy music.

    I say let the marketplace decide. I'll be giving my business to labels that press regular ole CDs, and from now on I'll be giving my shinies to EPIC insted.

    The right to free speech online is important. The right to electronic privacy is important. But EFF has gone off on this wildly statist, quixotic consumerist rant lately that boils down to lobbine government to tell private property owners how they can use their private property.

    Fuck that statist bullshit.

  5. Re:Good first step by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Both measures are good steps towards repealing the DMCA, or at least nullifying its more damning effects.

    Not really. Check Eric Raymond's excellent write-up on the subject to see why.