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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. Re:Coherent? by LTC_Kilgore · · Score: 0, Troll

    OMGWTFBBQ?!?!!!11

  2. Re:Chance for change... by keraneuology · · Score: 0, Troll
    Wouldn't that problem be solved by mandating the presence of at least one person with a law degree (or a law student) in the jury?

    The vast majority of judges in this country have law degrees (many states make this a codified requirement - I don't know about federal judges but the odds of a non-lawyer being appointed federal judge are pretty much 0 in a trillion). Many US Senators and Reps have law degrees. Many state senators and representatives and governors have law degrees.

    No problem in the history of the world has ever been solved or even lessened by requiring lawyers to get involved.

    If anything, lawyers should be banned from serving on juries.

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    If the g'vt kept the data on you that google does you'd better believe you'd be calling it "doing evil"