Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Digital Media Consumer Rights Act

Posted by Hemos on from the changing-the-dmca dept.

irabinovitch writes "Representatives Rick Boucher and John Doolittle introduced the DMCRA which would to quote the EFF would "require labelling requirements for usage-impaired "copy-protected" compact discs, as well as several amendments to 1998's infamous Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)." We always seem to complain about the DMCA around here now is our chance to change it! Check out this "Action Alert" at the EFF."

3 of 156 comments (clear)

  1. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ha ha

  2. Wishful thinking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    All this is well and good, but do you think we can actually go against the **AA and get this passed? Good luck. "Wishful thinking" comes to mind.

  3. Uncharted Territory... by svwolfpack · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's interesting the way in which the internet exists in a total virtual world, a new frontier which has yet to be really colonized. Right now, it's sort of like this huge country, with stores, residents, jobs, basic laws etc... but no real government to speak of. The DMCA is in a way trying to bring order to this chaos, but the problem is no one really owns the internet, which makes it very difficult to enforce all your own laws in it. It will take a much more comprehensive set of rules than the DMCA before people will start to actually respect them. One of the biggest deterrents to committing a crime is knowing that it is completely socially and legally unacceptable. Right now, many things are illegal, but the laws are deemed unfair, so these things are socially acceptable. In time, these will balance out, and the internet will become much more stable, and speak with more of a singular voice.

    --
    Once upon a time...