Yes the DMCA can be repealed. It would only need a bill to go in and strike the statutes made by the legislation known as the DMCA. That is the easy part. The hard part will be drafting a law that will replace the DMCA. This new law must be better than the current DMCA but also must be in such a way that it will pass Congress. We can hope for a law that would prevent MS from doing stuff like this, but it must also be a law that lawmakers and their constientiencies can agree on.
My university, Kansas State University, just finished the general election portion of our student elections on Wednesday of this week. It looks like we had a 4% increase in turnout, but I will attribute some of this to the "newness" factor of internet voting. I am also concerned about some of the issues raised by critics of internet voting. They say that it excludes some segments of our society that do not have computers or internet access. This concern does raise a very interesting topic, what can be done to open up the internet voting to all in America and still be secure. Talk to ya later, Joey Bahr
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All I had to do was change the KBWG in that link to the code for the local airport and it works in my RSS reader.
Yes the DMCA can be repealed. It would only need a bill to go in and strike the statutes made by the legislation known as the DMCA. That is the easy part. The hard part will be drafting a law that will replace the DMCA. This new law must be better than the current DMCA but also must be in such a way that it will pass Congress. We can hope for a law that would prevent MS from doing stuff like this, but it must also be a law that lawmakers and their constientiencies can agree on.
My university, Kansas State University, just finished the general election portion of our student elections on Wednesday of this week. It looks like we had a 4% increase in turnout, but I will attribute some of this to the "newness" factor of internet voting. I am also concerned about some of the issues raised by critics of internet voting. They say that it excludes some segments of our society that do not have computers or internet access. This concern does raise a very interesting topic, what can be done to open up the internet voting to all in America and still be secure. Talk to ya later, Joey Bahr