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Status: U Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:16:53 -0500 From: Somebody To: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Nat'l Assoc. Recording Merchandisers on DMCA User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i > The National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) is one of > the few official voices standing up for the music-buying public, in > addition to its primary role as support organization for music > retailers. The group recognizes that grumpy consumers ultimately > mean unhappy retailers, and it announced last week that it is > submitting written testimony to a US House of Representatives > oversight hearing, criticizing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act > Section 104 Report that was released earlier this year by the > Copyright Office. ... > "DISAGREE with the Copyright Office's assertion in Footnote 41 that > Section 109(a) is a right without a remedy. There is absolutely no > legal basis for concluding that Congress didn't mean what it said in > enacting Section 109(a), or that Congress intended Section 109(a) to > be voidable at the discretion of a copyright owner. http://www.stereophile.com/shownews.cgi?1221 --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
