I am a bit concerned that they mainly want to know what specific "exclusions" to the DMCA should be made. Some people on Newsforge and Slashdot said that it may not be productive for our side to create specific exclusions to the DMCA, because that would weaken our argument that the DMCA is overbroad and bad policy with chilling effects on technology, academia and especially the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Someone on Slashdot compared it to allowing "just a little slavery" rather than fighting slavery. I'm not sure if the analogy is accurate, but makes me think... ----- Original Message ----- From: "MonMotha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUAU Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:40 AM Subject: [luau] Gub'ment accepting public input on DMCA http://www.copyright.gov/1201/comment_forms/ Go there; say how it has effected you...now. 'Nuff said methinks? :) --MonMotha
