Moving to strengthen "fair use" provisions...

[Hammer]

Related to P2P networks issues...

"NEW YORK -- U.S. Congressman Rick Boucher, moving to strengthen "fair use" provisions under federal copyright law, said he is introducing a bill that would essentially restrict the record industry from selling copy-protected CDs."

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[anarchic_teapot]

Not just P2P. It also affects the CDs (and CD-ROMs) you might buy and want to make a copy of so you can use the copy and keep the original in a safe place.

It affects the computers and other CD-players who aren't designed to cope with the proprietary formats used in copy-protection: they can, literally, make your computer totally unuseable, requiring an expensive  trip to SAV to get things sorted out.

It's about bloody time someone stood up for common sense.

Except for MS. Oh please let them continue with this Palladium/XP control freakery. It'll drive so many people away from Windows and (back) to decent platforms such as the Miggy. :-D

[redrumloa]

It's about bloody time someone stood up for common sense.

Yeah no kidding! Wish there was more common sense out there:-/

[The_Editor]

I believe its already happening!!  All be it on a small scale (to start with).

The German Government is supposed to be changing over to Suse Linux and the British Government is supposed to be conducting a feasibility study on Linux as well.

If both Governments decide on a change of O/s / Apps ... That will make a BIG dent in M$ coffers....

And like you said Anarchic .... more & more People ARE getting pissed off with M$ control tactics,  Perhaps if they find Linux a bit too Geeky they might have a looky our way.  :-D

[anarchic_teapot]

The_Editor scribed:

And like you said Anarchic

Oh, do call me Teapot. We're all friends here ;-)

.... more & more People ARE getting pissed off with M$ control tactics, Perhaps if they find Linux a bit too Geeky they might have a looky our way

Alright, everybody, Amiga T-shirts ON!