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Re: [atlarge-discuss] FW: Reject Senate Bill 655
Bruce and all fellow members,
I fully agree this is one of several battles that the ICANNATLARGE.ORG
members and organization should be fighting now and have been fighting
for some time. The MPA and Jack Valente in particular has been
marshaling it's forces and most especially targeting it's funds
to effectively push it's position. However as ICANNATLARGE.ORG
has no funding to even start on providing any meaningful opposition
or alternative, it is unlikely if not a sure thing that ICANNATLARGE.ORG
members and organization will have even a pimple of an impact of this
very mature battle at this juncture.
You can't effectively stand up to the MPA without having a good funding
process and real funds...
bruce@barelyadequate.info wrote:
> Below is a copy of a message sent to my state senator regarding a law being
> pushed in our state senate. The Motion Picture Association of America has
> been pushing similar laws in all 50 states, trying to make an end-run around
> the US Congress. US members, please get smart on this isssue and fight your
> own battles against similar attempts in your state.
>
> Bruce Young
> Portland, Oregon USA
> bruce@barelyadequate.info
> http://www.barelyadequate.info
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> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: bruce@barelyadequate.info [mailto:bruce@barelyadequate.info]
> | Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 11:02 PM
> | To: 'sen.margaretcarter@state.or.us'
> | Subject: Reject Senate Bill 655
> |
> |
> | I am writing you today to communicate my objection, in the
> | strongest of terms, to Senate Bill 655, sponsored by Senator
> | Charles Starr
> | (http://www.leg.state.or.us/03reg/measures/sb0600.dir/sb0655.intr
> | o.html). This bill, one of the many so-called "Super DMCA"
> | bills being lobbied for in state legislatures all over the
> | country by the Motion Picture Association of America, is being
> | promoted as an attempt to prevent piracy of digital media. At
> | this time I won't address the curtailment of digital
> | intellectual property rights this legislation would impose on
> | Oregon consumers in the name of protecting Big Media profits (if
> | you are interested in examining *this* aspect of this bill,
> | please check out the Electronic Frontier Foundation's page on
> | the subject at
> | http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/states/200304_sdmca_eff_analysis.php).
> | Instead, I will concentrate on the aspect of this bill that is
> | most troubling to me as a computer professional: it would make
> | illegal my ability to protect my Internet-connected home
> | computer from hackers looking for it, by making routers using
> | Network Address Translation (NAT) illegal.
> |
> | Please understand the scope of this proposed law: virtually
> | every home or small office connected to the Internet using cable
> | or DSL broadband has or will eventually have a device called a
> | router that is used to connect more than one computer to their
> | single broadband Internet connection. Perhaps you have one at
> | home yourself. NAT is a feature built into most of the routers
> | sold for home and small-office use. It works by using a
> | different set of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to manage the
> | computers you hook to it, and "translates" the various IP
> | Addresses on your home network to the single IP address going
> | out to your ISP, therefore masking the true IP address of the
> | PC. Since the address spaces these routers typically use reside
> | in "non-routable" address spaces reserved for local network use
> | only (i.e., the big routers out on the Internet are hard-wired
> | to ignore the addresses they use!), NAT provides added security
> | for computers hooked to routers that use it. Thus a hacker on
> | the other side of your router is not easily able to "touch" your
> | PC because they can't even see it.
> |
> | SB 655 would change this, by making it illegal for a person to
> | hide the true IP address of his or her PC. Not only would this
> | make the Internet less secure for Oregon's broadband users, it
> | would also force us to abandon millions of dollars worth of
> | existing networking equipment. This would not be a trivial
> | expense for many of us, particularly in this time of economic
> | challenge for many Oregon families.
> |
> | Just so you needn't think I'm the only one concerned about this
> | issue, I offer for your review links to four of numerous recent
> | articles on the subject, by respected voices in technology and the law:
> |
> | Use a Firewall, Go to Jail
> | Prof. Edward Felten
> | http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html
> |
> |
> | Lawmakers Outlaw Firewalls
> | Dan Gillmor, ComputerWorld
> |
> http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0,10801,8
> 0245,00.html?nas=MGT-80245
> |
> |
> | New Law Putting Net-and You-at Risk
> | Jim Rapoza, eWeek
> | http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1032977,00.asp
> |
> |
> | 'Super-DMCA' fears suppress security research
> | Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
> | http://www.securityfocus.com/news/3912
> |
> |
> | I urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to reject Senate Bill 655,
> and to enlighten your fellow senators as to the the most-troubling |
> aspects of this flawed bill.
> |
> | Thank you for your time and attention.
> |
>
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