Foster | 4 Jun 2012 21:56
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Re: Tuesday 5 June 2012 Library of Congress: Argument before the Register of Copyrights For and Against the Right of Private Ownership of a Computer

On 4 Jun 2012 15:42:33 -0400, secretary <at> lxny.org wrote:

> In Washington DC on Tuesday 5 June 2012 at 1:30 pm in the
> Jefferson Building, there will be a discussion of Proposed
> Exemption 4 to the "Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright
> Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies" which
> prohibition is a part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
> >   On the panel, our side is strong.  In addition to Brett Wynkoop
>   and Jay Sulzberger of New Yorkers for Fair Use, we've got
>   Aaron Williamson, of the Software Freedom Law Center, and
>   Marcia Hoffman, of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

My advice to the unwashed Linux minions is to stay home.

Seeing you "neck bearded" freetards in person will be too much of a
shock for congress and it certainly will not help your cause any.
GreyCloud | 4 Jun 2012 23:09
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Re: Tuesday 5 June 2012 Library of Congress: Argument before the Register of Copyrights For and Against the Right of Private Ownership of a Computer

On 6/4/2012 1:56 PM, Foster wrote:
> On 4 Jun 2012 15:42:33 -0400, secretary <at> lxny.org wrote:
>
>> In Washington DC on Tuesday 5 June 2012 at 1:30 pm in the
>> Jefferson Building, there will be a discussion of Proposed
>> Exemption 4 to the "Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright
>> Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies" which
>> prohibition is a part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
>>>    On the panel, our side is strong.  In addition to Brett Wynkoop
>>    and Jay Sulzberger of New Yorkers for Fair Use, we've got
>>    Aaron Williamson, of the Software Freedom Law Center, and
>>    Marcia Hoffman, of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
>
> My advice to the unwashed Linux minions is to stay home.
>
> Seeing you "neck bearded" freetards in person will be too much of a
> shock for congress and it certainly will not help your cause any.

Hehehe ... fair use?  What about the consumers?  Or the developers for 
that matter?  All the developers I've seen always want some kind of 
remuneration, unless all the new beginning developers wants is recognition.

Gmane