Support DMCA Reform - Help pass HR 1201!

[joepic]

If you live in the USA then PLEASE take a minute and fill out the form to limit the DMCA.

https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=115

I found this article at cdfreaks.com

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/13121

"This Bill is one that should be of interest to anyone that has had a belly full of the RIAA and the MPAA, with their continuing attempts to bury our right to Fair Use. The problem is, since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA, it's illegal to circumvent copy control measures placed upon our purchases by the content providers. When this bill was passed, it was bad enough then, but now, it has become an ever increasing annoyance, due to advancements in consumer electronic devices and new innovative ways of enjoying our content. It effectively trumps Fair Use, it also has a chilling effect on innovation for hardware and software advances for the future.

The EFF has posted an informative web page on the H.R. 1201 bill (or the DMCRA- Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act) introduced on March 9, 2005 and has since been referred to the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, that speaks to this important consumer issue. Basically, this is an "Anti-DMCA" proposal that would pull the teeth out of DMCA in the respect of restoring Fair Use.

You would have to be living under a rock if you don't see that more and more measures are being dreamed up by some very talented people, to make it harder for us to backup or utilize our purchases in the ways that todays society demands and desires. These are very sophisticated techniques that make todays weak measures such as Macrovision or Content-Scrambling System (CSS) look silly.

Also, it's becoming very clear, that these so-called anti-piracy measures are merely a vehicle for content providers to start charging us to perform such actions as time shifting or ripping and has little to do with lost profits. It is more about enhancing profits and emptying your wallets in new ways. It's all about control of your actions with purchased products once you get them home. Without the laws to back them up though, to make it illegal to bypass such measures, they are pretty worthless as they can all be defeated most likely. So the lobbying is intense as there is a lot of money at stake. "

[SilverBlade]

Posted already:

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=294096