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DMCA Comments HOWTO

Posted by timothy on from the first-select-a-nice-font dept.

pberry writes "As previously reported here on slashdot, the Copyright Office is looking for suggestions for new exemptions to the DMCA. The EFF has posted a nice HOWTO document to make your comments as effective as possible."

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  1. Step one by isorox · · Score: 3, Funny

    The EFF has posted a nice HOWTO document to make your comments as effective as possible.

    Incase it gets slashdotted, here's the probably content:

    1) Include lots of money with your letter
    2) Legistature change
    3) There is no step three!

  2. How about this: by Tuxinatorium · · Score: 2, Funny

    The wording is so ridiculously broad it could be interpereted to prohibit having a 7 year old, because any 7 year old can decipher Adobe's ROT-13 encryption on eBooks. That makes 7-year-olds an illegal copyright circumvention tool according to the DMCA. What, for christ's sake, were they smoking when they wrote the DMCA?

    Except try to say it nicely and don't be so vitriolic. ;)

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    Repeal the DMCA!
  3. Re:Damn DMCA by suricatta · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't ask me about Vegemite either. Apparently it's not even Australian anyway, and it's owned by a foreign cigarette company, but don't quote me on that.

    And don't worry, I know how insignificant we are. :) Reminds me of a joke me and my friends throw about here sometimes (probably a rip-off of something even funnier, but anyway):

    "Quick we're being invaded! Send in the Airforce!"
    "We can't"
    "Why not??"
    "The propellor's broken"
    "Ok then, send in the Navy!"
    "Sorry, no can do"
    "Why is that?"
    "There's a hole in the sail"
    "What about the Army?"
    "Afraid not"
    "No?"
    "He's fixing the propellor"