[luau] Legislative Alert: SSSCA becomes CBDTPA

[R Scott Belford]

Jeff,

Well done.  More of us should follow your good example, myself included.

scott


On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 03:15  PM, Jeff Mings wrote:

> Warren,
>    I am absolutely livid about this bill.  I am deeply embarassed that 
> our own senator has prostituted himself to the corporations supporting 
> this.  I emailed Abercrombie, Akaka, and Inouye about this a few weeks 
> ago when we heard the first rumblings.  Akaka's office actually wrote 
> back to me without saying anything meaningful, but sounded decidedly 
> favorable to the bill.  I have been considering how to most effectively 
> fight this, and I will GLADLY work with you in this matter.  Let me 
> know what you're planning.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff Mings
>
>
> Warren Togami wrote:
>
>> 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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