[ale] [OT] Georgia Super-DMCA Update

Wed Apr 23 08:00:41 EDT 2003

Sounds great!  I would even say something about the refrigerators and other
items in the future that will be using the internet.  These would be illegal
too.  I would put it in right after you explain the items you already have.

Just my 2 cents.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan Northrup" <docx at io.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] Georgia Super-DMCA Update

> Mike Lockhart wrote:
>
> >Directions?  Any ideas what kinda notes i should take to be prepared for
> >this? (i'm not the most politically aware person)
> >
> >
>
> Directions should be nice.  If offered the opportunity to speak, here's
> what I'll try to say:
>
> "Thank you for allowing me to speak.  I will be as brief as I can
> expressing my views on the broad impact of this legislation.  I am a
> computer professional and use my broadband internet connection to
> telecommute to my job.  My boss is located in Virginia, his boss is
> located in California and my company is based out of Texas.  Yet I
> choose to live, work, pay taxes and vote in Georgia because I enjoy the
> freedoms, culture and lifestyle that it affords.  In addition, by
> telecommuting as I do and not driving into an office, I do not
> contribute to the traffic congestion that is endemic to working in and
> around Atlanta.  As a computer professional, I have several machines at
> home that all can communicate with the Internet.  A desktop computer, a
> laptop, multiple servers and two game systems. I plan on purchasing more
> "internet aware" devices in the near future including a Tivo, another
> game system, a computer for my son and more test servers to help with my
> professional growth.  I currently do this all with a single internet
> connection using a device that mediates or proxies my outgoing
> connections.  It is a convenience to have my computers all connected to
> the internet concurrently. I avoid having to disconnect one host and
> connect another, one of the benefits highly touted by phone and cable
> companies when they market their high speed internet services.  In
> addition, it is a security measure.  Because the computers on my network
> are hidden behind a firewall that conceals the origin of traffic from
> and the destination of return traffic to devices on my home network., no
> computer on the Internet can contact any machine on my home network
> unless I allow it.  This affords me protection from malicious hackers,
> viruses and those willing to exploit new vulnerabilities with software
> running on computers connected to my internal network.
>
> If this bill passes there are several provisions I will be in violation
> of.  My wireless access point is a retransmitting commucations device.
> My web browser decrypts online purchases and bank transactions without
> contacting my ISP for permission.  When I purchase a newer model of
> router and sell my old one on ebay I will be advertising for sale and
> transferring to another a communications device that conceals the origin
> and destination of traffic.  Because of the overly broad nature of the
> definitions of communications device, communication service and
> communication service provider I will be in violation of several aspects
> of this law even though I have not committed any other crime and do not
> intend to do so in the future.  I will be forced to either carry on in
> violation of the law and hope that judicial interpretation eventually
> curtails or overrules this overly broad legislative language; change the
> way I work and live thereby reducing my quality of life and introducing
> more stress into my already busy and overworked time; or relocate away
> from the state that I had hoped to make a home for myself and my family
> for years and decades to come.  I would hope the committee would
> consider the legislation before it and do everything in its power to
> prevent its passage.  I am one of thousands and tens of thousands high
> tech employees in this state that would be affected by this legislation
> and won't be the only one considering whether to take my family, my job
> and my taxes elsewhere.
>
> Thank you for your time."
>
>
> Doing a read through, this clocks in at just over two minutes.  I am
> trying to figure out how to squeeze in something about pervasive
> consumer electronics devices in the future that will be internet aware,
> but can't figure out the right verbiage.  If I can't think of something,
> I'll just go with what I have here.
>
> --
> Dylan Northrup <*> docx at io.com <*> http://www.io.com/~docx/
> "Easy to bitch, easy to whine, easy to moan, easy to cry, easy to feel
>  like there ain't nothing in your life. Harder to work, harder to
>  strive, hard to be glad to be alive, but it's really worth it if you
>  give it a try."  -- Cowboy Mouth, 'Easy'
>
>
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