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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Community Networking <comnet-www_-at-_flora.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:32:17 -0400 (EDT)
After receiving an email copy of the following article: http://www.commonblog.com/story/2004/10/19/184947/35 I sent the attached reply. -- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Telling my story: The Life of one Hacker Early draft, looking for comments and corrections of my memory. http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/life-of-hacker.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:32:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca> To: "Lauren Coletta, Common Cause" <causenet@commoncause.org> Subject: Re: Pull the Plug on Sinclair I am curious: If media concentration is an issue for CommonCause, will they be joining online activists in their opposition to Digital Rights Management (DRM) and other techniques protected by the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Currently you are dealing with media concentration that has been built through the market, but with DRM protected by the DMCA you have media concentration enacted in a combination of east-coast-law (DMCA, enacted in Washington) and west-coast-law (DRM, enacted as software authored in silicon valley and embedded in communications devices). The problems you observe are minor compared to where we will be in the future. Note: It was the "Democrats" that enacted the DMCA, and in many ways it is the Democrats that must change their political views if there is to be any future democracy in the USA. -- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Telling my story: The Life of one Hacker Early draft, looking for comments and corrections of my memory. http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/life-of-hacker.html
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