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Has RIAA Totally Gone Nuts?

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:20:47 -0400 Send reply to: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> From: Richard Forno <rforno@INFOWARRIOR.ORG> Organization: WWW.INFOWARRIOR.ORG Subject: Has RIAA Totally Gone Nuts? To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

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.'

'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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