[luau] Legislative Alert: SSSCA becomes CBDTPA

[R. Scott Belford]

Out F'in rageous.  Or, no surprise.  Elected officials respond to voters.
In the absence of voters, they respond to lobbyists.  Guess who they are
responding to?  Warren, I will help in any way the community deems effective
in educating and persuading Inouye and the others.  Thanks for bringing this
to the attention of the list.

scott


----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
To: "LUAU" <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Cc: "Marcia J. Kemble" <mkemble at aloha.com>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:48 PM
Subject: [luau] Legislative Alert: SSSCA becomes CBDTPA


> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51274,00.html
>
> PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE
> The SSSCA has been submitted to the senate as the Consumer Broadband and
> Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) which would require copy
> protection in every piece of hardware and software that is Federally
> approved.
>
> The DMCA is already an unconstitutional law with unreasonable and
> unenforcable restrictions that infringe on freedoms of code (speech) and
> academic study.  The CBDPTA takes this a step further.  Among the reasons
> like egregious abuse of fair-use, technical impossibility of keeping copy
> protection secure, and economic detriment to the United States, this would
> effectively OUTLAW Open Source Software.  I can't begin to describe this
> eloquently, so please read that article above and the EFF Alert below for
> more details.
>
> "Joining Hollings as co-sponsors of the CBDTPA are one Republican and four
> Democrats: Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), John Breaux
> (D-Louisana) and Dianne Feinstein (D-California)."
>
> Oh crap...  Our very own senator Daniel Inouye is supporting this bill.
>
> http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html
> For more background information about the CBDTPA and what you can do about
> it, please visit the EFF.  If you care about this issue, please soon mail
or
> fax letters in disapproval to our representatives in Washington and also
the
> Senate public comment.  Also please consider joining the EFF if you
support
> these issues of electronic freedom.
>
> Hawaii is trying to make itself a "High Tech" state.  If the Techies of
> Hawaii oppose this bill, Inouye can't possibly support it.  I want to
> organize an educational group locally to raise awareness among the Hawaii
> Tech community about the wrongness of CBDPTA.  Who would be willing to
work
> with me?  I can't do this alone.
>
> Warren Togami
> warren at togami.com
>
>
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