Boucher's DMCRA To Get A Hearing On May 12

Mr. Firewall writes "It's been a long road since Slashdot first carried the story that Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) was speaking out about the DMCA's trampling of fair-use rights. Well, his bill (HR 107) gets a hearing this Wednesday and the multi-billion-dollar music and movie industries have called out their Big Guns to stop it. This morning an urgent message from the Professional Photographers of America arrived in my inbox characterizing Boucher's bill as 'A bill that would make it impossible for photographers to protect their work' and other lies (apparently, the RIAA and MPAA have recruited the PPA into their Axis of Evil). The alert finishes by saying that 'a strong grassroots effort combined with [our] recent lobbying efforts should be enough to keep this harmful bill locked in the subcommittee ... until Congress adjourns.' Let's give these folks a little taste of the slashdot effect and do a little 'grassroots' contacting of congresscritters ourselves." Of course, you can decide only for yourself what your thoughts are on the bill.

Comments

Why depend on other's readings of the bill?

[LostCluster]

Figures that Slashdot would talk about a piece of proposed legislation without linking to the actual text of the bill in question...

Here's The bill's test on the Thomas system. and here's the list of 15 representatives co-sponsoring the bill.

Read the bill for yourself, then you can think for yourself about what it's going to do if passed.

Re:Does it really have a chance?

[Drooling_Sheep]

The full text says that people now could break DRM for non-infringment uses.