South Carolina's Shame

Date: Sat, Mar 23, 2002 4:18 PM

From: "nu-monet v4.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51275,00.html

A bill introduced by Senate Commerce Chairman and utter
greedhead swinish tool of the recording industry Fritz
Hollings would prohibit the sale or distribution of
nearly any technology -- unless it features copy-
protection standards to be set by the federal
government.

The Senator, who has long since sold his soul to any
corporation with a buck and now shamelessly suckles at
the teat of the RIAA to the detriment of his obviously
po'bucker constituency, will still, no doubt, be re-
elected, as the inbreds who voted for him haven't a
clue that he dances with the devil in the pale moon
light at child-sacrifice ceremonies designed to bring
about the teaching of evolution in their schools.

--
Toynbee Idea in Movie 2001 --
Resurrect Dead On Planet Jupiter --
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs

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From: "Unclaimed Mysteries" <k4doh@mindspring.com>

More accurately, technology-clogging "standards" dictated by the likes of
Disney and the other major entetainment cartel members, and enforced by the
government. "Bob" -DAMB, how can a man go through life knowing he's OWN3D by
a fscking CARTOON CHARACTER?!?

Corry, never been, never going.

--
It Came From C. L. Smith's Unclaimed Mysteries.
http://www.unclaimedmysteries.net

"We have to get away from the ethos that knowledge is good, knowledge should
be publicly available, that information will liberate us." - University of
Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan, obediently marching in step.
(LATIMES.COM 11/18/2001).

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From: "irk" <HoomunBakun@burnt.crisp>

Now wait just a cotton pickin minute there Nu!!
As a rezdent of SC and we get all squishy when we
think about our too wunderful US Senators. Owr
senators are so damed eleqwent, just looky here
at this jewl from a Committee on Comerse, Sciuhnce,
and Transpurtation from Sept 19,1985 when Hollings
took on former pornographer Frank Zappa:

Senator HOLLINGS: I've had the opportunity to, ah,attend a, a showing, you
might say, or presentation of, ah, this porn rock, as they call it. In the
test of pornography, one of the things to look at is it, it does not have
any redeeming social value. Ah, there could be an exception here, because
having attended that pres, presentation, the redeeming social value I find
that is inaudible. I have a hard time understanding it, then. Paul, since I
traveled the country for 3 years, 'n they said they could not understand me.
Maybe I could make a good rock star. I don't know. Heh . . . But in all
candor, I would tell you it's, it's outrageous filth. So, I'll be looking
from this Senator's standpoint, not just to bring pressures but to try to
see if there is some constitutional provisions to tax, or approach that can
be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth.

I mean Dam! How can you argue with such a mind!!

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From: "nu-monet v4.0" <nothing@succeeds.com>
> As a rezdent of SC and we get all squishy when we
> think about our too wunderful US Senators...

I just realized that I should talk.

AZ has Senator John "What th' HELL is a Constitooshun?"
McCain, and Senator "The Other Guy."

--
"Schools are functionally prisons. Urinalysis
is a remedy when there is evidence of drug use
and a deterrent when there is no evidence of
drug use."

--Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist

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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

South Carolina, from whence part of my family hails, has a long and
proud history of such demagogs, and I am about half related to one of
the most infamous, a Senator "Cotton" Ed Smith. He held his seat longer
than any Senator had in history up until that time. Some would call him
demonically evil, I suppose, although those cotton farmers kept voting
for him. To my knowledge he is the one Senator who seriously advocated
"shipping all the blacks back to Africa." The Yankee press made fun of
him a lot.

However, Hollings is North Carolina, according to this email from Byron
Werner. I dunno which he is. But I know North Carolina and South
Carolina are very different. The former is further north, for one
thing.

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

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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