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I Hate The RIAA!
Ask Your Candidate About Copyright Reform
MichaelCrawford
Date:
January 14, 2004 @ 1:49 PM
Is it time to get the DMCA repealed? Do you
think the RIAA has
gone
too
far
? Do you think
it's wrong that Disney can get a law passed to
keep Steamboat Willie from passing into the
public domain - a law that makes it impossible
for anyone to expect a newly copyrighted work
pass into the public domain during their lifetime?
How about making copyright reform a central issue
in the upcoming election?
Very likely most politicians don't know if the
DMCA is fit to eat, feel Disney and the RIAA are
important campaign contributors whose requests
should be given priority, and music downloaders
are simple thieves who deserve every bit of
punishment they get.
You can change that. But it's going to take some
work. But there are enough people sharing music
in America - more people than voted for George
Bush - that if you get off your collective asses
and get active politically, you can get laws
passed to get the RIAA off your back.
In
Change the Law
, I explain that copyright is
not a Constitutional right, like free speech.
Instead copyright is allowed (but not required)
to serve a useful purpose, a purpose which I feel
has long since outlived its usefulness.
I suggest steps you can take to bring about
copyright reform, ranging from
speaking out
to
practicing civil disobedience
.
One thing I'd like you all to do today is to
write your elected representatives
to ask their
opinion of the current state of copyright law
given its widespread abuse by organizations like
the RIAA and MPAA, and to urge them to work
towards copyright reform. Let them know your
vote will depend on a positive response.
When you're done writing that letter, write to
the other candidates for each office in the
upcoming elections, to ask them the same thing.
Sixty million american peer-to-peer file traders
have the potential to raise a lot of Hell with
the politicians. I want every candidate to be
peppered with questions about copyright reform at
every campaign stop and in every press interview.
I want the repeal of the DMCA to be discussed in
the Presidential debates.
People marched in protest when Dmitry Sklyarov
was arrested. Dmitry Sklarov is free now - but
the law under which he was jailed is still on the
books.
If you agree with me that something needs to be
done about copyright,
I need your help
.
Thank you for your attention.
JC123
Date:
June 1, 2004 @ 9:55 AM
I wrote my congressman. They never responded. I
wrote a potential candidate. She gave my
information to businesses of Georgia!
Suffice to say, I need a little more help in
getting OFF the list now...
anotherdreamer
Date:
July 27, 2004 @ 4:57 PM
I don't know, I think artists have a lot to do
with the problem. As long as artists keep giving
their consent to labels, fans will be persecuted
and lives destroyed. Many of here are doing
this, but we need some big-name artists to join
with us.
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