---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 11:08:52 -0800 From: "Ackroyd, Dan" <dackroyd@ea.com> To: "Free-Sklyarov (E-mail)" <free-sklyarov@zork.net> Subject: [free-sklyarov] U.S. Rep. positions against copy controls (sent again - original message did not get through) WASHINGTON--A U.S. congressman said Monday that he intended to change a controversial copyright law to allow consumers to override technologies that prevent them from making digital copies of music, movies and software. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., said he plans to introduce a bill that would eliminate the "anti-circumvention" clause of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a 1998 law that updated copyright laws for the digital era. Intended to discourage piracy, the clause has come under increasing fire over the past year by people who say it imposes severe limits on the rights of consumers to make personal backup copies or otherwise control music they have purchased. The clause has inspired high-profile court battles and made a minor celebrity out of Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer jailed for writing a program that defeated a copy-protection measure in Adobe Systems' eBook software. Boucher told an audience of musicians, lawyers and music industry executives at the Future of Music policy summit that his bill would modify section 1201 of the DMCA to allow consumers to defeat copy-protection measures for legitimate personal uses, but it would still outlaw circumvention efforts for piracy. "I'm very concerned about the DMCA," Boucher said. "There's an increasing number of instances in which unjust results are reached." .... On Monday, Boucher pointed out that Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group will soon release its new CDs in copy-protected form, making them impossible to play on personal computers and some CD systems as well. Consumers should be able to use computer programs to defeat that copy protection, he said. ------------------------------------------- The full text can be found at: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8396905.html?tag=mn_hd ------------------------------------------- Other interesting opinions of Rick Boucher can be on his website at: "PAY-PER-USE" SOCIETY ONE STEP CLOSER www.house.gov/boucher/docs/payperuse.htm STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN RICK BOUCHER ON INDICTMENT OF DMITRY SKLYAROV AND ELCOM LTD http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/sklyarov.htm As we say in the UK, sounds like an alright geezer! If you want to send message of support to Rick Boucher, you can contact him through his web page at http://www.house.gov/boucher/ cheers dan ackroyd For and on the behalf of Dan Ackroyd. Any views included are the senders own and not those of either Intelligent Games or Electronic Arts. Unauthorised review or use of any confidential information in this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete it from any computer. yada yada yada. _______________________________________________ free-sklyarov mailing list free-sklyarov@zork.net http://zork.net/mailman/listinfo/free-sklyarov