On 22/09/2004, at 11:26 AM, Timothy Musson wrote:
It is recommended that the Committee:
...
- agree to amend the provision relating to technological protection
measures:
1. so that the prohibition against the making, importing, hiring and
selling of devices, services or information designed to circumvent
"copy protection" be expanded to cover devices, services or
information that circumvent technological protection measures that
protect all rights provided to copyright owners, including
communication, not just copying; and
2. to facilitate the actual exercise of permitted acts where
technological measures have been applied
- agree to create an offence (of a fine not exceeding $150 000 and/or
a term of imprisonment of up to five years) for large scale
commercial dealing with devices, services or information designed to
circumvent technological protection measures;
I believe that big business, multinationals or whatever you want to call them, who have their power base in the US, see you and I as merely consumers, (i.e. slaves) and they can see that the end is nigh for much profit to be be made in any form of media or communication. Computers have made it so easy to copy huge volumes of information of all kinds, written, pictorial even video and send it anywhere in the world faster than I can walk to my letterbox and back. They (big business) do NOT like this. They are going to regain control in any way they can and the DMCA is a start in that direction. If they could CONTROL the Internet then we would be paying a hell of a lot more for it than we do now. The question is how do you fight this creeping commercialization?
Bart Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
