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Update on State "Communications Services" Laws
babbage_ct writes "As has been reported on Slashdot before (see here, here, and here for just a few) the MPAA is pushing so-called Super-DMCA laws in states around the country. Well, score one for the good guys. Oregon's version, SB 655 is going to die. Turns out the sponsor was scammed by MPAA lobbyist. See the e-mail from legislative staff below.
From: "Staff SenCharlesStarr"
To:
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 5:17 PM
Subject: Status of SB 655
Status of SB 655:
SB 655 is slated to die in committee this session. It is no longer an immediate threat, however, there will be a study commission appointed over the interim. Sen. Minnis decided that the issue was too complex to resolve this session. I will attempt to inform you when the commission is formed so that you can have further input. Oregon truly dodged the bullet on this. Some states passed the MPAA model legislation before the IT community even knew it existed.
The email you sent to Sen. Starr (and I hope all of the committee members) helped to stop this dangerous legislation. Good job! In case you're wondering why Sen. Starr sponsored this bill in the first place, it was requested by the MPAA lobbyist (who really is a nice guy) but Sen. Starr was told that it was a simple bill to update copyright law in relation to digital media. Yes, and a whole lot more! As the full impact of the bill became clear, Sen. Starr withdrew his support, which contributed to the bill's "unfortunate demise."
If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask.
Ken McDermott
Legislative Assistant
Senator Charles Starr
900 Court St NE S-312
Salem, OR 97301
staff.sencharlesstarr@state.or.us
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One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when Slashdot confirmed that interest in stories by Michael has dropped yet again, now down to unmeasurable levels.
Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that stories by Michael have garnered more pointless trolls, including this post, than all other editors combined. This news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: Michael is grasping at straws when posting articles. This was fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in recent polls as to Most Popular Editor.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Michael's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Michael faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Michael because Michael is dying. Things are looking very bad for Michael His office is dark, the tomb-like sepulchral atmosphere is all that remains. Michael continues to lose reader interest. Goatse.cx trolls abound, their red hue colouring monitors like a river of blood.
Michael's other project, the Censorware Project once a glowing bastion of free speech now features a personal attack on its main page. The Censorware Project is dead, all that remains to be done is to have its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that Michael has turned Slashdot into a laughing stock when makes juvenile, biased comments. Michael long term survival prospects are very dim. If Michael's job at Slashdot is to survive at all, he wil be read by nothing more than granola-crunching leftists and dilettante First Ammendment dabblers and hangers-on. Michael's arrogance continues to grow as Slashdot decays for it. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Michael is irrelevant.
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It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Michael is redundant.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when Netcraft confirmed that interest in stories by Michael has dropped yet again, now down to unmeasurable levels.
Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that stories by Michael have garnered more pointless trolls, including this post, than all other editors combined. This news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: Michael is grasping at straws when posting articles. This was fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in recent polls as to Most Popular Editor.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Michael's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Michael faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Michael because Michael is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Things are looking very bad for Michael. His office is dark, the tomb-like sepulchral atmosphere is all that remains. Michael continues to lose reader interest. Goatse.cx trolls abound, their red hue colouring monitors like a river of blood.
Michael's other project, the Censorware Project, once a glowing bastion of free speech now features a personal attack on its main page. The Censorware Project is dead, all that remains to be done is to have its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that Michael has turned Slashdot into a laughing stock when he makes juvenile, biased comments. Michael's long term survival prospects are very dim. If Michael's job at Slashdot is to survive at all, he wil be read by nothing more than granola-crunching leftists and dilettante First Ammendment dabblers and hangers-on. Michael's arrogance continues to grow as Slashdot decays for it. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Michael is irrelevant.
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It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Michael is redundant.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when Netcraft confirmed that interest in stories by Michael has dropped yet again, now down to unmeasurable levels.
Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that stories by Michael have garnered more pointless trolls, including this post, than all other editors combined. This news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: Michael is grasping at straws when posting articles. This was fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in recent polls as to Most Popular Editor.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Michael's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Michael faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Michael because Michael is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Things are looking very bad for Michael. His office is dark, the tomb-like sepulchral atmosphere is all that remains. Michael continues to lose reader interest. Goatse.cx trolls abound, their red hue colouring monitors like a river of blood.
Michael's other project, the Censorware Project, once a glowing bastion of free speech now features a personal attack on its main page. The Censorware Project is dead, all that remains to be done is to have its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that Michael has turned Slashdot into a laughing stock when he makes juvenile, biased comments. Michael's long term survival prospects are very dim. If Michael's job at Slashdot is to survive at all, he wil be read by nothing more than granola-crunching leftists and dilettante First Amendment dabblers and hangers-on. Michael's arrogance continues to grow as Slashdot decays for it. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Michael is irrelevant.
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What about Oregon's new Senate Bill 742? Proposed by republican senator John Minnis, it says that whoever participates in or conspires to participate in any type of activity which disrupts commerce (or which at least one person involved intends to use to disrupt commerce, regardless of if they tell the others) faces a mandatory life sentence without paroll.
The idea of it is, that if you say you're going to go to a peace march, they can arrest you, because many peace marches disrupt commerce, and if found guilty of saying you're going to go to a peace march, they'll throw you in prison for life without giving the judge a chance to reduce the sentence. And I have not exaggerated a word of this.
Of course it advertises itself as an anti-terrorism bill, and our legistlators have a history of saying "aye" whenever a bill comes along that has a good sounding summary and was proposed by someone of their own party. And peace marchers are usually democrats, trouble makers in their eyes.
They might say that they're only going to use it against real terrorists, but if that's true they should put it in writing, rather than passing an "everyone is guilty of crimes punishable by death" law.
Just the fact that one of our legislators would propose something like that deeply offends all of us. And black people from California still can't get more than 30 miles past the border without getting pulled over, but that's another story. I'm voting democrat in the next state election if they decide to let me have a ballot this time.