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Call To Action - US Users Take Action Now !
« on: March 21, 2006, 02:32:07 am »
Folks this is important and requires your support to gain your fair use rights back.

https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr010=t4th2axgh2.app2a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=115

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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has been wreaking havoc on consumers' fair use rights for the past seven years. Now Congress is considering the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA, HR 1201), a bill that would reform part of the DMCA and formally protect the "Betamax defense" relied on by so many innovators.

HR 1201 would give citizens the right to circumvent copy-protection measures as long as what they're doing is otherwise legal. For example, it would make sure that when you buy a CD, whether it is copy-protected or not, you can record it onto your computer and move the songs to an MP3 player. It would also protect a computer science professor who needs to bypass copy-protection to evaluate encryption technology. In addition, the bill would codify the Betamax defense, which has been under attack by the entertainment industries in the "INDUCE Act" and the MGM v. Grokster case. This kind of sanity would be a welcome change to our copyright law.

Last year we sent 30,000+ letters of support for the DMCRA, and the bill got a hearing on Capitol Hill. It's time to double that number - take action at the link below, then urge your friends and family to support HR 1201, too!

Folks this is your chance to make a BIG difference, please take the time to make your support of a revision to the DMCA known, you may not get another chance to change matters :|

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