It's things like this that make me really wonder if that fruitcake Chomsky isn't right about America being for sale to the highest corporate bidder.
The only consolation is that RIAA's sister organizations are trying to pull the same BS in the UK. Time to move to that oil rig platform data haven thingie off the coast of Scotland. Jim On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:41:44 -0500, David Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what we can do about this. It's seems that now, the RIAA / > BSA / SPA / Big Business is in bed with the Department of Justice; the > DoJ has certainly adopted a stance that would only benefit the RIAA (and > gang). It certainly doesn't help the American Consumer at all. > > I think that the only thing that we can do is to ensure that we stay one > step ahead of technology which would infringe upon our rights (DRM, > etc.) and continue to support Linux. Sadly, I wish I could say that no- > one has ever went to jail doing something for Linux, but that's just not > true. > > We need to get Eric S. Raymond, Richard Stallman, the guys from EFF, and > any other heavy name to stand behind a single protest - instead of > selfishly pursuing their own roads to glory. I don't mean to be > critical of the visionaries who brought us this far, but we really need > their help or we're all going to be screwed. > > David > > > > On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 14:40 -0700, John Hebert wrote: > > Was going to reply with something funny or > > smart-alecky, then I realized: that won't fix > > anything. > > > > What can we do about this? Would it even help to write > > our congressional representatives? I mean, we could > > come up with something that is fairly knowledgeble > > about the issue, being geeks. I've followed Lessig's > > writings (http://www.lessig.org/blog/) on this issue > > for awhile. > > > > John > > > > --- David Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry for the aborted reply...I got so angry > > > thinking about it I slammed > > > the keyboard down and bumped the send button. > > > > > > David > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
