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Boucher's DMCRA To Get A Hearing On May 12

Posted by timothy on from the speak-up-sonny dept.

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.

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  1. Fact: *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    There is one thing we have to remember: *BSD is dying. Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sold another troubled OS. Now BSDI too is out of business, and its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyists, dabblers, and dilettantes. *BSD continues to decay, and nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time; for all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

  2. Re:Grassroots by Adriax · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ya gotta get at the roots, not just the stalk.
    Weedkiller.

    --
    I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
  3. Just how urgent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    This morning an urgent message from the Professional Photographers of America arrived in my inbox

    Was it solicited? When I get a lot of urgent unsolicited emails from Nigeria, I figure if I'm not interested, I can still help them out by giving them copies of each others email. (Sadly this sometimes clogs the small email boxes they use.)

    I don't know if this would work in this case, but it might be worth a try.

  4. More Information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually, you may find more information about this matter from a activist website, such as The Weird Network,Which can be found here.