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USCO Reviewing DMCA Anti-Circumvention Clause

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the open-to-change dept.

ahknight writes "The United States Copyright office begins its required review of the effects of the anti-circumvention portions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act on November 2nd. This review period lasts until December 1, 2005. They will be accepting your well-thought-out opinions on the web and by mail. If you're reasonably ticked that you can't legally get around encrypted files to get at the media you've bought, start writing a coherent stance for the USCO today."

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  1. Coherent? by gorbachev · · Score: 4, Funny

    "...start writing a coherent stance for the USCO today."

    DMCA is teh suxx0rszss!!!11!one!11

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  2. A better idea ... by aaronmcdaid · · Score: 3, Funny

    > start writing a coherent stance

    .. or just rip off a fellow slashdotter's comment.

    1. Re:A better idea ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      .. or just rip off another fellow slashdotter's comment.

    2. Re:A better idea ... by AlphaJoe · · Score: 2, Funny

      Uhm.... he said coherent...

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  3. Not a good idea to post that on /. by J0nne · · Score: 4, Funny

    I doubt their comment form has a moderation system, so any insightful comments will drown between all the goatse and tubgirl images and ascii pr0n that will undoubtedly be sent ;)...

  4. Re:They won't really listen by George+Tirebuyer · · Score: 5, Funny

    They'll listen... especially if large numbers of ordinary people show up with torches and pitch forks.

  5. Re:give it a few days by Aumaden · · Score: 2, Funny

    "will" not "should"

  6. Re:They won't really listen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    and a response when they're bloody and disemboweled and saying "but no one ever said..."

  7. Re:Chance for change... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please contact me personally. I have a need for people like yourself.

    L. Ron Hubbard
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  8. Hm. by ryuuzin · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you're reasonably ticked that you can't legally get around encrypted files to get at the media you've bought, start writing a coherent stance for the USCO today.

    Coincidentally, NaNoWriMo is all of November...

  9. Send them a song! by MS-06FZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have this great MP3 tune I could send them. Sure, most of the verses are nonsense like "This function is void, it takes two parameters, the first is 't', the encrypted title key" and so on, but it has this great chorus that goes like "I hate the DMCA, it steps on me and I'm not free"...

    Joan Baez would be proud.

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