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Boucher's Anti-DMCA Bill Gets High Profile Allies
Landaras writes "News.com is reporting that a newly-formed alliance called the Personal Technology Freedom Coalition is throwing their support and lobbying efforts behind Rep. Rick Boucher's (D-Va) Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act.
Members of the Personal Technology Freedom Coalition include Intel, Sun Microsystems, Verizon, SBC, Qwest, Gateway and BellSouth. The EFF and the American Library Association are also in support."
I'm in Boucher's district and have met and talked with him personally before - he's a genuinely smart guy. My only dissappointments are that he feeds at the pork trough like eveyone else (my community has been the benficiary of about $60k in various matching grants for small projects) and that he's very party-line on general issues.
...oh, wait. I guess being able to make backups of all their CDs and DVDs would be good for the poor people so that they don't have to buy them again when they get scratched up. That'll mean they can buy food and socks with that money they would have had to spend on replacing expensive CDs and DVDs! Good thinking, Rick!
Additionally, most of the counties in his district are either officially impoverished or on the verge of it. Maybe he should spend more time representing the concerns of his impoverished constituency in Congress.