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DMCA Comments HOWTO
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."
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!
Not trying to troll here folks, but it's things like this that makes me glad I don't live in America sometimes.
You'll be less glad when Bush, Ashcroft and Rumsfeld decide to declare war on your country for some random reason under the guise of the war on terror! :)
GMD
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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.
:) Reminds me of a joke me and my friends throw about here sometimes (probably a rip-off of something even funnier, but anyway):
And don't worry, I know how insignificant we are.
"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"
Ok, the DMCA sucks monkey balls, we all know this. But rather than sit here and rant about it, try and find a good, specific example in your life that shows where something should be allow. The idea isn't to just sit and bash the DMCA, they are just going to shitcan your comment and you will have gained nothing. Personally, I have already found one item that I felt needed to be included with this ruling: DVD Region Encoding. I don't know if it is allowed or not, but considering that it is a technological measure which controls access to a copyrighted work, hacking my DVD player to ignore it just might be a crime under this law.
Sure, it took me the better part of an hour to craft what I thought was a good argument for the inclusion of circumvention of Region Encoding in this ruling. Luckily I didn't have to go far to find a concrete example, the "Futurama" DVDs. (Love the show, really want the DVDs. They were only released in the UK a.k.a. Region 2.)
My point is, if you have something you want to be able to hack, then get off your ass and go tell the people that are going to make the descion.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Laziness is the father.
The last war actullay declared by Congress was World War II. Presidents have waged war whenever they damn well pleased to, and Congress has never lifted a finger to stop them. War was never declared in the cases of Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I, Somalia, or any of the smaller military actions since the end of WWII.
How ya like dat?
Amen! Consumers can send a message to the record labels, and the whole entertainment cartel by not buying their products. Voting with our wallets works.
How ya like dat?