Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 11, 2002 02:11 PM
Check out your senators' and Congressmen's web pages. See if they list a position on the bill. Make note if it says "compromise preferred" (code for not telling you their true position). Then write to the Senator/Congressman and pin them down on their exact position on this bill. Especially find out, separately, their position on 1. First Use, 2. exemption from the law for home copying. When you get your results, go to www.gothamcitynewshound.com (don't go there now, site is scheduled to go live May 1st or sooner if possible) and submit your results. I will be devoting a special section to this issue, and you will be able to see each Senator's and each Congressman's position on this bill. A full accounting will be made on their support or opposition, so that they won't be able to run, and won't be able to hide their position prior to election day.
btw, privately, I have information that this bill is dead this year due to election year, but is already planned to be brought up again next year.
As to the IBM issue, don't forget that it was reported on the 'net that IBM was the main hard drive manufacturer that was attempting to get one of the standards bodies to approve inserting low level code into hard drives that would prevent copying.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 11, 2002 02:11 PMbtw, privately, I have information that this bill is dead this year due to election year, but is already planned to be brought up again next year.
As to the IBM issue, don't forget that it was reported on the 'net that IBM was the main hard drive manufacturer that was attempting to get one of the standards bodies to approve inserting low level code into hard drives that would prevent copying.
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