Support DMCA Reform - Help Pass HR 1201!

[news=http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/2783/eff6mf.gif]The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has been wreaking havoc on consumers' fair use rights for the past seven years. Now Congress is considering the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA, HR 1201), a bill that would reform part of the DMCA and formally protect the "Betamax defense" relied on by so many innovators.

HR 1201 would give citizens the right to circumvent copy-protection measures as long as what they're doing is otherwise legal. For example, it would make sure that when you buy a CD, whether it is copy-protected or not, you can record it onto your computer and move the songs to an MP3 player. It would also protect a computer science professor who needs to bypass copy-protection to evaluate encryption technology. In addition, the bill would codify the Betamax defense, which has been under attack by the entertainment industries in the "INDUCE Act" and the MGM v. Grokster case. This kind of sanity would be a welcome change to our copyright law.

Last year we sent 30,000+ letters of support for the DMCRA, and the bill got a hearing on Capitol Hill. It's time to double that number - take action at the link below, then urge your friends and family to support HR 1201, too!

:source: Link: https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy...rAction&id=115[/news]

this sounds good.

I totally agree with this.

You mean making backups of your own stuff is illegal right now?? Damn..

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Originally Posted by erRor67

You mean making backups of your own stuff is illegal right now?? Damn..

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No it isn't. Breaking the encryption is.

Yeah, but like every new dvd and cd in the market is like encrypted.. :rolleyes:

Sorta defeats the purpose eh?

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Originally Posted by erRor67

Yeah, but like every new dvd and cd in the market is like encrypted.. :rolleyes:

Sorta defeats the purpose eh?

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DVDs yes. CDs no. Software no.

Think everyone that can should fill out the forum and submit it...

I did not have to do much filling out, do to the AutoFill feature of the Google toobar for Firefox. That's cool how it automatically emails that to your state's representative.

it is sound nice:)

I'm all aboard

i'm 100% with it, signed and delivered :p

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There's so much more wrong with the DMCA then just the restrictions on fair use, but I'm wholeheartedly for anything that stops making half of the country criminals!

I'm glad I don't live in USA. Our country does not have laws similar to the DMCA. In fact, I have not heard of any case being lodged against file sharers..

Let's do this one, eh?

done.thanx.

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Originally Posted by wevotedno

done.thanx.

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