How They'll Fuck Us

Date: Sun, Mar 24, 2002 6:48 PM

From: "Byron Werner" <hotwire@d2.com>

(Fwd) Mail your Congresscritters! Seriously.

The Senator from Disney, Fritz Hollings, (D-NC) introduced
a remix of the SSSCA today. Now called CBDTPA,
the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television
Promotion Act, this bill, if made law, would mandate
copy-protection technology in all hardware and
software capable of handling any digital content.

What this means to you:

Hardware and software will get really expensive.
Matter of fact, this is going to put so much strain on
the already beaten-down technology sector that they
may well go offshore.

What you can and can't do with movies and music you
purchased will be dictated by the RIAA and MPAA.

You will no longer be able to record TV programs unless
the content owner says so (with an encrypted key).

If you copy something by circumventing an encryption
key and put it on your internet-connected computer,
you're a felon, whether that content is available to
outsiders or not.

The list goes on.

Unfortunately, both Feinstein and Boxer are on board
for this one (big surprise), but I urge you to write and
fax them anyway and get this government-mandated
profiteering legislation put down like a bad dog.

more info can be had here:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03286.html
and here:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51245,00.html

Do something. At least forward this email to absolutely everyone
you know who can vote.

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From: "glassgnost" <dlindnerSPAMBLOCKED@socal.rr.com>

Vote! Funny...

So far as I can tell, political careers in this country are made by sucking
up to two primary groups: Corporations and little old church ladies.

My advice: Assume that evrything you do is or will soon be illegal. Focus on
becoming part of the demographic that won't see much in the way of
enforcement activity.

--
"You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!"
- Dr. Strangelove
Mystical Reverend Doktor glassgnost, Minister of Unnatural Selection
- dlindner (at) socal (dot) rr (dot) com -

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From: prostata@bronze.coil.com (The Stinking Bishop Prostata Cantata MP)

>My advice: Assume that evrything you do is or will soon be illegal. Focus on
>becoming part of the demographic that won't see much in the way of
>enforcement activity.

bingo.

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I have burped, farted, and sneezed at the same time, and I am still
alive. --Dan Povenmire, Los Angeles

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