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[FYI] (Fwd) Has RIAA Totally Gone Nuts?




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Date sent:      	Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:20:47 -0400
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From:           	Richard Forno <rforno@INFOWARRIOR.ORG>
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Subject:        	Has RIAA Totally Gone Nuts?
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If anyone had doubts about the allegiancies of the RIAA (and its
sister MPAA), one only read this Wired article to get clear on the
matter. These cartels tried to place intellectual property enforcement
controls into the anti-terrorism bills and try to sneak it in under
the radar. While everyone was wrapped up in patriotic anti-terrorism
furor (some of which is still controversial) they tried to exploit the
situation and emotions for their commercial motives. Talk about a lack
of ethics.

I hope more mainstream journos outside of  Declan pick this up and run
with it to spread the word - this is not only a shame, but
demonstrates once and for all that the RIAA/MPAA and entertainment
industry is only concerned with its own coffers, profit lines, and
monopolies and will do anything at any time under any circumstance -
no matter how unethical - to maintain their dominance.

Fortunately it didn't pass.

On a different track, I am pleased to report that I'm going on my
second year without purchasing a CD - and am quite content with my
MP3s from previously-purchased, fair-use CD collections of both hard
rock and classical. Haven't bought a DVD in almost a year, but friends
have given them to me as gifts and such.....sorry to disappoint Queen
Hillary and King Jack, but I won't contribute to your retirement and
further your cartel's agenda.



Rick

Full article is here:
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47552,00.html

The proposed amendment is here:
http://www.wartimeliberty.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/14/1756248


Look Out Pirates: RIAA Wants to Hack Your PC

posted by admin on Monday October 15, @07:56AM
from the hilary-rosen-master-hacker dept.


This is a copy of an amendment that the Recording Industry Association
of America had been shopping around on Capitol Hill. The RIAA
apparently now says they're taking a more moderate approach, but you
can read the original text below. This would amend the USA Act, which
in turn amends existing law.


"Section 815(d)(2) [of the Senate antiterrorism legislation] currently
amends section 1030(g) (the provision of 1030 which creates a civil
cause of action) by adding a sentence at the end providing:

'No action may be brought under this subsection for the negligent
design or manufacture of computer hardware, computer software or
firmware.'

We [would propose adding a new sentence to the end of this as follows:

'No action may be brought under this subsection arising out of any
impairment of the availability of data, a program, a system or
information, resulting from measures taken by an owner of copyright in
a work of authorship, or any person authorized by such owner to act on
its behalf, that are intended to impede or prevent the infringement of
copyright in such work by wire or electronic communication; provided
that the use of the work that the owner is intending to impede or
prevent is an infringing use.'

OR

'No action may be brought under this subsection arising out of any
impairment of the availability of data, a program, a system or
information, resulting from measures taken by an owner of copyright in
a work of authorship, or any person authorized by such owner to act on
its behalf, that are reasonably intended to impede or prevent the
unauthorized transmission of such work by wire or electronic
communication of such transmission would infringe the rights of the
copyright owner.''


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