[nylug-talk] [fred.benenson at gmail.com: [fc-nyu-discuss] Fwd: [IP] Call to Action re HR3746 from EDUCAUSE]

Sun Oct 7 16:14:18 EDT 2007

On 10/7/07, Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> On 10/7/07, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/6/07, Kevin Mark <kevin.mark at verizon.net> wrote:
> > > Protect education from the music mafia!
> > > -K
> > > ----- Forwarded message from Fred Benenson <fred.benenson at gmail.com>
> > -----
> > >
> > > Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:23:16 -0400
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> > > This is bad news... and something that needs to be on our radar.
> > >
> > >
> > > F
> > >
> > > PS: The MPAA guy confirmed for the screening. We're on for 9:15 on the
> > 16th!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: David Farber <dfarber at cs.cmu.edu>
> > > Date: Oct 6, 2007 10:19 AM
> > > Subject: [IP] Call to Action re HR3746 from EDUCAUSE
> > > To: ip at v2.listbox.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Begin forwarded message:
> > >
> > > From: dewayne at warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
> > > Date: October 6, 2007 2:48:26 AM EDT
> > > To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy at warpspeed.com>
> > > Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Call to Action re HR3746 from EDUCAUSE
> > >
> > > CALL TO ACTION:
> > > Please contact your representatives to the U.S. House of
> > > Representatives immediately about HR3746.
> > >
> > > Members of the House Committee on Education and Labor have just
> > > introduced legislation to control illegal file sharing in higher
> > > education that uses essentially the same language as the recent Reid
> > > amendment in the Senate. This bill, called the College Access and
> > > Opportunity Act of 2007, includes language that:
> > >
> > > * Makes the Secretary of Education an agent of the entertainment
> > > industry.
> > >
> > > * Gives schools no right to contest or appeal industry provided-
> > > statistics on copyright violations that can result in severe penalties.
> > >
> > > * Requires use of unproven and very expensive technological controls.
> > >
> > > * Could result in the loss of financial aid to all students of
> > > schools that do not comply.
> > >
> > > * Singles out institutions of higher education and ignores commercial
> > > ISPs.
> > >
> > > WHAT YOU CAN DO:
> > > 1. Coordinate your response to this challenge with your institutional
> > > executives and federal relations officers.
> > >
> > > 2. Call the main sponsors of the bill to express your strong
> > > opposition to this proposal:
> > >
> > >     Representative Buck McKeon, ph: (202) 225-1956, fax: (202) 226-0683
> > >     Representative Ric Keller, ph: (202) 225-2176, fax: (202) 225-0999
> > >
> > > (Please note: email may be rejected if you are not a constituent.)
> > >
> > > Ask for the staff member in charge of higher education and leave a
> > > voice mail if necessary. Call back later to speak with a staff member.
> > >
> > > 3. Call and/or e-mail your institution's Congressional representative
> > > and deliver the same strong message. (Find your representative's
> > > contact information at <www.house.gov >)
> > >
> > > 4. Call additional sponsors of the bill and deliver the same strong
> > > message. (Rep. Rob Bishop, Utah's 1st; Rep. Charles W. Boustany, Jr.,
> > > Louisiana's 7th; Rep. David Davis, Tennessee's 1st; Rep. Luis
> > > Fortuno, Puerto Rico; Rep. John Kline, Minnesota's 2nd; Rep. Mark E.
> > > Souder, Indiana's 3rd; and Rep. Joe Wilson, South Carolina's 2nd).
> > >
> > > For copies of the relevant legislative language, talking points, and
> > > template responses for your use, please see < http://www.educause.edu/
> > > p2pfs>.
> > >
> > > Thank you for your help!
> > >
> > > Mark Luker
> > > Vice President
> > > EDUCAUSE
> > >
> > > **************************************************
> > > EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance
> > > higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information
> > > technology.
> > > The current membership comprises more than 2,100 colleges,
> > > universities, and educational organizations, including 200
> > > corporations, with 16,500 active members. EDUCAUSE has offices in
> > > Boulder, Colorado, and Washington, D.C. Learn more at http://
> > > www.educause.edu
> > >
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> > Hello!
> > All I can say is "Go now and speed well!". Sorry Kevin but this is one
> > issue that's not even on my oversized todo list. But if you want to
> > badger the idiots in DC who believe in this fertilizer go ahead. I
> > suspect the fellow you copied this from will certainly do so. Oh and
> > catch me on Wednesday regarding the whole business.
> >
> > However... The one on the voting machine charlie-fox I did indeed
> > bring to the attention of my locally elected officials.
> >
> > The individuals quoted on the forwarded e-mail are not in our
> > districts. And I suspect that the senators who cover ours will indeed
> > be voting no on it regardless of how scatterbrained the senator who
> > first proposed it seemed.
>
>
> I wouldn't bet on it. DMCA, which is one of the most awful pieces of
> legislature in US history, came into existence during the Clinton Era. (And
> the Clintons are very, very chummy with the media industry.) (The Sony Bono
> Act came into effect during the Clinton era as well.)
>
> Don't expect anything from your elected officials. Pin them down on the
> issues.
>
> The problem with what they propose is that its up against the same
> > issues as when they first proposed that public libraries install
> > similar crap, it didn't work. Chances are pretty good that it'll be
> > lost in the shuffle as they rapidly try to come up clean for next
> > year.
> > --
> > Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> > "This signature was once found posting rude
> > messages in English in the Moscow subway."
> >
> >
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Hello!
Then how come  practically nothing is being done to enforce that
garbage except by the media firms and their paid buzzards, rats and
other toads? (Lawyers)

Besides a heck of a lot of firms are now offering downloads without
that stupid media management thing that one of us complains about.
-- 
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
 messages in English in the Moscow subway."