[Fwd: [ale] DMCA Protests]

[Ned Williams]

I would agree the DMCA is vague, I would also agree that it does seem to have less
consitutional forsight in its forming and more corporate lobbying, but the solution
then is to be good little americans and write our senators and congressmen,not
throw our hands to the sky and damn the corporations for trying to make a buck, let
them try, they try their thing(corporations,read groups of americans), we try our
thing(read individual americans), congress does or does not do something(read
questionable americans), someone gets sued(usually the individual american), or
someone sues(usually the afformentioned group of americans,unless its the
courageous group like EFF,then they sue and tell everyone about it), in the case of
the adobe mess, someone's rights (though this is even a murky issue seeing as how
he's Russian) are being abuse under the guise of the DMCA ,then the supreme court
gets involved and the constitution and its opponents get their day in court.

Jonathan Rickman wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Ned Williams wrote:
>
> > Are we talking about a legimate constitutional issue with the DMCA or whining
> > like a bunch of anti-capitalist socialist from Genoa here?
>
> A little of both. The general idea of the DMCA is a good thing. The old
> "information wants to be freeeee" thing doesn't fly with me. But the laws are
> much too vague and lend themselves to corporate abuse. The first really high
> profile arrest was made at DefCon. The man was arrested for "circumventing"
> encryption methods used to secure documents. Basically, he cracked ROT-13.
> WOW!!! This man MUST be stopped!!! Have any MP3s on your HDD right now??? You
> could be arrested and charged. Oh, so you actually have the CDs they were ripped
> from??? That's ok. We can't arrest you, but we can sue you. Sorry, the DMCA
> really is that vague.
>
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> Jonathan Rickman
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