The DMCA is the infamous "Digital Millenium Copyright Act" which was pushed through Congress by a certain Senator from South Carolina who was partially repaid by certain companies who have named one of the new DMCA chips named after him!! Anyway the gist of the act is that it gives all sorts of new protections to copyright holders while apparently not mentioning the rights of the owners of recordings, VHS tapes, or DVDs. Nor, or so I'm told does it mention anything about what is or is not so-called "Fair Use" which used to be perfectly legal. For example, when writing a thesis or dissertation you used to be allowed to quote (or use) parts of a written work to create another written document. But I'm not an expert on this subject and I suggest that you search Google (isn't this ironic) for "DMCA" to find out more information. There is also a shadowy company in the Valley which is so hated that its location is a secret the owners receive death threats almost daily(this also is also discussed in an earlier issue of Wired Magazine) because they have perfected a method of searching even peer to peer networks for copyrighted materials. There is talk by some Congressmen that the DMCA needs to be revised to balance the rights of the owners of copyrighted products with the owners of the copyrights themselves. This to counterbalance the great polical power best described as this Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules". -----Al Johnson
----- Original Message ----- From: "Vestal, Roy L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:49 AM Subject: RE: [TriLUG] thanks, Red Hat! > Okey, > <ignorance-hat-on> > What is the DMCA? > </ignorance-hat-on> > > Patiently waiting, Me > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Brown [mailto:gregbrown@;mindspring.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 9:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [TriLUG] thanks, Red Hat! > > > Way to fight the DMCA, Red Hat! > > http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-158.html > > If you haven't read Slashdot this morning this is the Red Hat article that's > causing such a stir with the DMCA. Look at the bottom of the page under > References. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
