TuxGirl wrote:
what we *can* do... I personally don't think that writing to our
senator (*cough*) or representatives will fix the problem... I've
I've tried this three times. When I wrote Hatch regarding the Sklyarov
affair, I received a return letter that actually addressed my concerns.
Whoever wrote the letter told me that Hatch couldn't comment and an open
court case (yeah, like he won't comment on the open SCOTUS abortion
notification case), and that, in his opinion, the DMCA strikes "the
proper balance" between consumer and content-owner rights.
I wrote him again regarding the SSCA. I posted my letter on /. :
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=113695&cid=9631254
The response to this note did not even remotely address my concerns.
In my opinion copyright was first broken in 1976 when copyright was
*retroactively* extended. Sklyarov and Felton were just instances of the
new powers given by the DMCA (at its denial of due process). With (as
reported in this thread) a group who failed to meet the pre-1976
requirements for copyright was able to go to the supremes to get it
back, that just shows that the system was beyond repair earlier than I
had thought.
I do not believe we are at the point of civil disobedience yet.
Currently, we need to take action in two ways:
1. Campaign against Hatch. It would take a pretty evil person to *not*
be a lesser evil to Hatch. However, he has a lot of power in the senate
and many people in Utah vote for him for that, and because he's (R).
2. Vote with our dollar and do without products from companies that are
abusing copyright. That would, IMO, include Sony and Adobe.
-jb
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