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ATTN: all dm members!!! Fight back- Send your letter to congress(Filesharing & p2p)

Jennae	Date: August 1, 2003 @ 5:15 PM http://news.dmusic.com/article/7322 AND READ THIS!!!!!!!! Suggested Letter to send to Congress Posted by Bill Evans in Industry News on August 1, 2003 at 1:43 PM Printable Version COPY AND PASTE THIS LETTER, SIGN YOUR NAME AND TAKE A STAND!!! I write today because I am gravely concerned about the escalating situation between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the over 60 million Americans who use peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software. As a constituent, I urge you to call for Congressional hearings on how to compensate artists without breaking the Internet or turning millions of American citizens into criminals. The current state of affairs is unacceptable and it appears to be getting worse. Recently, the RIAA declared war on the American public by announcing a plan to violate the privacy of hundreds of P2P users and then use the information to sue each of them for thousands of dollars. Senator Orrin Hatch has publicly voiced support for technology that could destroy a P2P user's computer in order to "educate" her about copyright. The RIAA continues to sue students, technology companies, venture capitalists, and anyone else who dares to support file-sharing technology. It is also continuing its efforts to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to violate the privacy of thousands of Americans by issuing identity-seeking subpoenas. It is time to take a stand, and I am relying on you to take the lead on protecting my rights and the rights of the thousands of other constituents who are just like me. We need to start looking for solutions to the real problem: getting artists paid. Neither the RIAA's litigation nor vigilante legislation will put a single penny into the pocket of an artist or songwriter. As Congress has done in the past when new technologies emerged to challenge old media companies, I urge you to call for hearings on P2P. The public deserves to hear about the merits of alternative payment models, compulsory licensing, and the benefits of file-sharing. This is a conversation that must take place in Congress, not the courts. I support compensation for artists and songwriters, and I also believe that the law should reflect the norms of society. Copyright is currently out of step with the American public and it is time to take a hard look at how we might fix it. I hope that you will help start this dialogue by calling for public hearings on P2P. I also urge you to work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other public interest groups to ensure that all sides in this debate are heard. Thank you for your time. Copy and paste the above letter into the mail, fax, and emails you send. Use the box below, and when you get ready to send it check the box that allows it to be posted to Letters to Leaders on the Congress.org website.. THERE IS A LITTLE BOX TO FILL OUT YOUR AREA CODE AT THE END OF THE NEWS ARTICLE TAKES 2 MINUTES!! PLEASE PLEASE!!! FIGHT BACK !!! YOU VOICE COUNTS!!! " id="56952">PLEASE GO HERE!!!!!! http://news.dmusic.com/article/7322 AND READ THIS!!!!!!!! Suggested Letter to send to Congress Posted by Bill Evans in Industry News on August 1, 2003 at 1:43 PM Printable Version COPY AND PASTE THIS LETTER, SIGN YOUR NAME AND TAKE A STAND!!! I write today because I am gravely concerned about the escalating situation between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the over 60 million Americans who use peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software. As a constituent, I urge you to call for Congressional hearings on how to compensate artists without breaking the Internet or turning millions of American citizens into criminals. The current state of affairs is unacceptable and it appears to be getting worse. Recently, the RIAA declared war on the American public by announcing a plan to violate the privacy of hundreds of P2P users and then use the information to sue each of them for thousands of dollars. Senator Orrin Hatch has publicly voiced support for technology that could destroy a P2P user's computer in order to "educate" her about copyright. The RIAA continues to sue students, technology companies, venture capitalists, and anyone else who dares to support file-sharing technology. It is also continuing its efforts to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to violate the privacy of thousands of Americans by issuing identity-seeking subpoenas. It is time to take a stand, and I am relying on you to take the lead on protecting my rights and the rights of the thousands of other constituents who are just like me. We need to start looking for solutions to the real problem: getting artists paid. Neither the RIAA's litigation nor vigilante legislation will put a single penny into the pocket of an artist or songwriter. As Congress has done in the past when new technologies emerged to challenge old media companies, I urge you to call for hearings on P2P. The public deserves to hear about the merits of alternative payment models, compulsory licensing, and the benefits of file-sharing. This is a conversation that must take place in Congress, not the courts. I support compensation for artists and songwriters, and I also believe that the law should reflect the norms of society. Copyright is currently out of step with the American public and it is time to take a hard look at how we might fix it. I hope that you will help start this dialogue by calling for public hearings on P2P. I also urge you to work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other public interest groups to ensure that all sides in this debate are heard. Thank you for your time. Copy and paste the above letter into the mail, fax, and emails you send. Use the box below, and when you get ready to send it check the box that allows it to be posted to Letters to Leaders on the Congress.org website.. THERE IS A LITTLE BOX TO FILL OUT YOUR AREA CODE AT THE END OF THE NEWS ARTICLE TAKES 2 MINUTES!! PLEASE PLEASE!!! FIGHT BACK !!! YOU VOICE COUNTS!!!
Expose	Date: August 1, 2003 @ 8:33 PM At the risk of sounding anti-anti-RIAA... This is not having our voice count, this is having someone else's voice speak for you, I see these things all the time. A petition, I'd be for, like the ones to not cancel futurama.
dgtzr	Date: August 1, 2003 @ 8:45 PM While the letter may not be personally written by myself, there is power in it. The point of the action is to blast our government with an air horn and let them know we won't stand for this garbage. They will listen if enough people flood them with the same message.
SinisterX	Date: August 2, 2003 @ 12:06 AM My Congressmen are worthless. I will boycott my own way.
SinisterX	Date: August 2, 2003 @ 12:07 AM Awesome letter though.
Jennae	Date: August 2, 2003 @ 2:51 AM
vanvox	Date: August 4, 2003 @ 12:32 AM This is having someone put the fact in black and white, Hes not stating a piont of view that is any differant then anyone else elses re to the fact at hand and he did it in a professional respectful manner thus meaning this is a very good letter to use.
Karmatic	Date: August 4, 2003 @ 12:54 AM Another reason I would be a good president -- I'm a strictly hetero man so I could never grab you by the balls like Congress. And hey, seems all you need to be a politician nowadays is $3500, a handful of supporters, and a clean past.
ronnie71	Date: August 7, 2003 @ 12:02 AM i even sent one to W. too... hahaha
francechic	Date: September 7, 2003 @ 6:27 PM wont work!!!! we need anybody but a monkey faced redneck w/ sausage 4 a dick in office.
starseven	Date: September 7, 2003 @ 8:25 PM Great letter.. just to bad it will fall on deaf ears....
jmweirick	Date: September 7, 2003 @ 8:28 PM did that a long time ago
Jazzmary2U	Date: September 7, 2003 @ 10:40 PM Been there..doin it. I prefer to write my own. Good push, tho..keep it up.

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