The MPAA's Lobbying-Fu is Stronger Than Yours

georgelazenby writes "The Frisco Chronicle reports: While the music industry has been clumsily bullying its way through the federal government, the movie industry has taken a more subtle -- and more effective -- approach. The MPAA has been lobbying individual state legislatures to pass laws reaching far beyond the original DMCA. The proposed laws would permit cable TV companies to 'limit subscribers to using only certain brands of VCRs and could ban TiVo in favor of their own proprietary PVR technologies.' According to one expert, the bills are 'tremendously open-ended and create theoretical and potential criminal liabilities for just about anybody on the planet.'"

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Re:Have you joined EFF yet?

[evilviper]

I love this. Everyone who ever posts this asks it as a rhetorical question. In other words, probably hasn't joined the EFF themselves...

Next time, mayby try something like "I've donated over $1000 to the EFF, I suggest you make a donation as well."

(In case it matters to anyone, yes, I am a member of EFF)