[ale] Moving my phone into the 20th Century

Chuck Peters cp at axs.org
Fri Apr 19 13:10:49 EDT 2013


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> And that 1 fact should be rammed down the courts throat to force a review
> of that ruling.
>

The courts didn't do this...  The ineptitude of this falls on the US
Congress and the DMCA law they made, and they left it up to the LIBRARIAN
OF CONGRESS.

In the article I cited,
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-most-ridiculous-law-of-2013-so-far-it-is-now-a-crime-to-unlock-your-smartphone/272552/,
under the heading WHO REALLY OWNS YOUR PHONE?
The DMCA leaves it up to the Librarian of Congress (LOC) to issue
exemptions from the law, exceptions that were recognized to be necessary
given the broad language of the statute that swept a number of ordinary
acts and technologies as potential DMCA circumvention violations.

Every three years groups like the American Foundation for the Blind have to
lobby Congress to protect an exception for the blind allowing for books to
be read aloud. Can you imagine a more ridiculous regulation than one that
requires a lobby group for the blind to come to Capitol Hill every three
years to explain that the blind still can't read books on their own and
therefore need this exception?


Chuck
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