OT: Copyright law changes could leave consumers vulnerable

[Meng Cheah]

phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:

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>>I'm not up to speed on what is in the new law but I expect that it
>>will have anti-circumvention rules protecting DRM.  This could be very
>>bad -- the US equivalent is the DMCA and we know how horrible that has
>>been (it will only get worse).
>>
>>NOW IS THE TIME TO TALK TO YOUR MP.  Unfortunately, your MP is
>>probably not of the governing party.
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>You've given us some hints, but it would help my enthusiasm for this cause
>if I understood what are the implications for someone who has no interest
>in popular culture, eg, does not own a TV set. (I suspect that many of us
>in this group have migrated from TV to things like Slashdot and
>Wikipedia.)
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First they came for the hackers.

        But I never did anything illegal with my computer,

                    so I didn't speak up.

              Then they came for the pornographers.

   But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway,

                    so I didn't speak up.

           Then they came for the anonymous remailers.

      But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi,

                   so I didn't speak up.

          Then they came for the encryption users.

    But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway,

                    so I didn't speak up.

                   Then they came for me.

     And by that time there was no one left to speak up.

                                                                  -- Alara Rogers <mailto:eidolon-j04lyjeriHw at public.gmane.org>

 :-)   http://www.fitug.de/archiv/satire/first.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...



>Incidentally, my MP is Jack Layton, and the NDP elected Peggy Nash to
>replace the liberal MP (name mercifully forgotten) who was pro DRM. So
>talking to the opposition might not be completely ineffective.
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I agree, my MP is Olivia Chow and thank God, she is not of the governing 
party.
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