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[Jeff Mings]

If you would like to post a more original  comment on the CBDTPA, you 
might use some of the comment I sent:

-Jeff


Dear Senator Leahy and Senator Hatch,

    I can not convey how frustrated and angry that the bill formerly 
known as the SSSCA has been hauled back from the grave and renamed the 
CBDTPA.  As a computer specialist, I know how terrible this will be from 
a standpoint of implementation, cost and practicality if actually voted 
in.  If the Hollywood corporations that have payed for the sponsoring 
legislators have their way, the computer/information industry will 
literally be set back 10 years from a standpoint of hardware and 
software innovations.  Many programs will be broken by the new nazi 
legislation and lots of hardware will similarly become incompatible.  
The cost to industry to reprogram and refit hardware will be staggering.
   Besides the simple matters of cost and impracticality, this 
legislation is simply wrong from a standpoint of freedom and justice.  
This legislation says that everyone who can duplicate digital 
information is a criminal and must be shackled.  I have purchased and 
burned hundreds of recordable CDs, and most of them have been used for 
"simple" backups, with the rest being basically for easy data 
transfers.  The draconian copy protection would complicate these 
legitimate uses of digital media, effectively penalizing me for crimes I 
don't commit.  This unbelievably intrusive bill is designed to control 
our lives in ways that our incredibly tyrannical.
    If this terrible bill is not stopped, foreign companies wanting to 
avoid being chained by these onerous limitations will steer business 
away from American companies.  This proposal is also completely 
unacceptable from a competitive standpoint.
    I feel deeply hurt, betrayed and embarassed that my own Senator, 
Daniel Inouye, who claims to stand up and fight for the little guy, has 
prostituted himself to the large media corporations  that are 
bankrolling and writing this bill.
    Please oppose Senator Inouye and the others who are perpetrating 
this attempted injustice and drive a stake through the heart of the 
CBDTPA.  Stopping this bill is the right thing for consumers, innovation 
and American business.

Sincerely,

Jeff Mings
91-1045 Koka St.
Ewa Beach,  HI  96706