Re: [DMCA-Activists] SSSCA introduced to Senate

[Jonathan Watterson]

OK everybody, we're in full-steam-ahead action mode about this new bill.
Everyone call both your senators. Look up their phone numbers here:
http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm

The name of the bill is Consumer Broadband & Digital TV Promotion Act.
(Thanks, Matt.)

It is Senate Bill # 2048.

Explain to the staffer that

* You are a voter in your senator's state.
* The CBDTPA will protect Hollywood at the expense of the computer
industry; it will neuter computers.
* The CBDTPA will make it difficult or impossible to use computers to
create your own art (like home-recorded music or film).
* The CBDTPA will, in spite of the best efforts of lawmakers to the
contrary, certainly limit our fair-use rights to use content as we see
fit. This is because technology can never be as subtle as the law.

Write a letter or send a fax if you want to. Paper always trumps email
with lawmakers.

J

On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 19:28, Matthew Caron wrote:
> It was renamed to the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television 
> Promotion Act (CBDTPA)
> 
> http://slashdot.org/articles/02/03/21/2344228.shtml?tid=103
> 
> Obviously from /.
> -- 
> It doesn't get any better.
> ~~ Matt Caron ~~
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