[olug] New digital rights bill going to congress.

[David Walker]

Welcome Dan

According to Jack Valenti this bill will be providing quite a lot of 
bandwidth.  If we're talking a 5 gig DVD times 1 million downloads divided by 
24 hours, we're talking a pretty big pipe.  And it sounds as if this pipe 
will go straight to the end user.  And when will we have time to watch all 
these movies?

Seriously, I also will be contacting my congresspersons as this sounds like a 
decent bill that will help to protect our future freedoms.


On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:39 pm, (Via wrote:
> Hello!
>
>   I haven't posted to this list yet, but I feel that this is something that
> will be affecting all of us.
>
>   The Slashdot article points to an article written about a bill being
> introduced to congress that would protect consumers rights to make copies
> of their CDs, DVDs and other digital works for personal use.  And just in
> case you are a Jack Valenti fan, read this quote:
>
>     ``If this bill were to pass, it would render ineffective,
>       worthless and useless any protection measure we would
>       have in place to protect a $100 million movie,''
>       Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association
>       of America, said of the Lofgren bill. ``You could download
>       a million movies a day, and no penalty for it.''
> (Kids, remember that last sentence... --Dan)
>
> Now, read the quote from Rep. Zoe Lofgren, the person introducing the bill:
>     ``This would not authorize someone taking their digital
>       content and sharing it with a million of their best friends,''
>       Lofgren said in an interview Tuesday.
> (Notice the actual intent and meaning of the bill. --Dan)
>
> Hmmm, it seems to me that Mr. Valenti is using FUD (Fear, Uncertanty,
> Doubt), and just plain lying to cause this bill to fail.  I wonder when he
> will tie this to terrorism?!?
>
>
> Here is the Slashdot link:
> 	http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/02/1654235&mode=nested&tid=10
>3
>
> Here is the news article link:
> 	http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4193841.htm
>
> I for one plan on sending a snail-mail letter to my congress-people to let
> them know that this bill appears to be much better thought out than the
> big-business backed DMCA.
>
> Dan
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