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Seth Johnson | 1 May 2003 09:07
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5/2/03: NY Fair Use at DMCA Exemptions Hearings


MEDIA ADVISORY            CONTACT:  Seth Johnson, NY Fair Use
                                    (212) 543-4265

WHAT:           Rally at U.S. Copyright Office's Rulemaking Hearing
                on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

WHEN:           8 to 10 AM, Friday May 2nd

WHO:            New Yorkers for Fair Use, a grassroots organization
                dedicated to preserving fundamental rights in a digital
                age.  http://www.nyfairuse.org

WHERE:          In front of 1333 H St NW, Washington DC

WHY:            If the DMCA is not overturned, in a matter of years
                governments and a few large companies will force spy
                machinery and remote control machinery into every home
                computer in the world.  The computer you have will not be
                yours any more.  The DMCA will also end free private,
                tribal, business and public use of the Internet.

                New Yorkers for Fair Use are here to tell the people how
                the DMCA threatens their right of private ownership of
                computers and free speech and assembly on the Net.  The 
                DMCA is the main legal underpinnings for a well-funded, 
                well-publicized, massive onslaught against private 
                ownership of computers, changing fundamentally how the 
                public can access and make use of information.
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Seth Johnson | 1 May 2003 09:09
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5/2/03: NY Fair Use at DMCA Exemptions Hearings


MEDIA ADVISORY            CONTACT:  Seth Johnson, NY Fair Use
                                    (212) 543-4265

WHAT:           Rally at U.S. Copyright Office's Rulemaking Hearing
                on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

WHEN:           8 to 10 AM, Friday May 2nd

WHO:            New Yorkers for Fair Use, a grassroots organization
                dedicated to preserving fundamental rights in a digital
                age.  http://www.nyfairuse.org

WHERE:          In front of 1333 H St NW, Washington DC

WHY:            If the DMCA is not overturned, in a matter of years
                governments and a few large companies will force spy
                machinery and remote control machinery into every home
                computer in the world.  The computer you have will not be
                yours any more.  The DMCA will also end free private,
                tribal, business and public use of the Internet.

                New Yorkers for Fair Use are here to tell the people how
                the DMCA threatens their right of private ownership of
                computers and free speech and assembly on the Net.  The 
                DMCA is the main legal underpinnings for a well-funded, 
                well-publicized, massive onslaught against private 
                ownership of computers, changing fundamentally how the 
                public can access and make use of information.
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Seth Johnson | 6 May 2003 07:00
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Congress Queries DOJ on PATRIOT Act


(Forwarded from ALA Washington Office Newsline)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ALA-WO:818] Another Request from Congress on USA PATRIOT Act
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 16:24:19 -0400
From: "ALAWASH E-MAIL" <ALAWASH <at> alawash.org>
To: ALA Washington Office Newsline <ala-wo <at> ala1.ala.org>

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 12, Number 38
May 5, 2003

In This Issue:  Another request from Congress for Information on Use of USA
PATRIOT Act

On April 1, 2003, the House Judiciary Committee requested extensive
information from the Justice Department regarding the Department's
implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act anti-terrorism law and the Attorney
General's Investigative Guidelines. 

The request was made in an eighteen-page letter to Attorney General John
Ashcroft by House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.
(R-Wis.) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.).

The letter states, "As the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House
Committee on the Judiciary, it is our responsibility to conduct oversight of
the Department of Justice's efforts to combat terrorism, which includes
implementation of the USA PATRIOT Act ('Act') signed into law by President
Bush on October 26, 2001. In response to our letter of June 13, 2002, you
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Ricardo Andere de Mello | 6 May 2003 14:19

[Patents] SARS and public domain patent.

Finally someone did what everybody should do, fill a patent request for 
public domain.
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=cp_health_home&articleID=1323070

Here in Brazil university researchers are patenting a lot of things 
discovered with public money...

[]s, gandhi

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Ricardo Andere de Mello
ONG Quilombo Digital - Presidente
gandhi <at> quilombodigital.org / (11) 3271-7928
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Seth Johnson | 9 May 2003 07:02
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Ballmer: DRM is the Future


Okay, this is the pro-Palladium spin being unleashed.  Ballmer does mention
"data protection" and "antipiracy locks" as two separate concepts, but he's
way out there, siding with the entertainment industry instead of the basic
rights of free citizens.  This is not what exclusive rights are about.

Let's go, folks.  Gotta stop this.

Note that Ballmer is playing directly to the WIPO Performances and
Phonograms Treaty, as I said was the game:

"The idea is to protect corporate and personal data from finding its way
outside the circle of people who are intended to see or use it, the company
says. Just as songs could be pre-loaded with rules that prevent them from
being copied or distributed online, e-mails or Word documents could be
wrapped with protections that prevent them from being sent to unauthorized
individuals or outside a corporate firewall."

Seth

> http://news.com.com/2100-1025-1000411.html?tag=sas_email

Ballmer touts DRM to customers 

By John Borland 
May 7, 2003, 6:30 PM PT

Corporate data protection and antipiracy locks are at the core of
Microsoft's future and are the future of business, Microsoft Chief Executive
Officer Steve Ballmer wrote in an e-mail to customers Wednesday evening.
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Ruben Safir | 9 May 2003 07:17

Re: Ballmer: DRM is the Future

Jay recommended guns once.  

I wouldn't do that however.

Ruben
Founder NY Fair Use http://fairuse.nylxs.com

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:02:50AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote:
> 
> Okay, this is the pro-Palladium spin being unleashed.  Ballmer does mention
> "data protection" and "antipiracy locks" as two separate concepts, but he's
> way out there, siding with the entertainment industry instead of the basic
> rights of free citizens.  This is not what exclusive rights are about.
> 
> Let's go, folks.  Gotta stop this.
> 
> Note that Ballmer is playing directly to the WIPO Performances and
> Phonograms Treaty, as I said was the game:
> 
> "The idea is to protect corporate and personal data from finding its way
> outside the circle of people who are intended to see or use it, the company
> says. Just as songs could be pre-loaded with rules that prevent them from
> being copied or distributed online, e-mails or Word documents could be
> wrapped with protections that prevent them from being sent to unauthorized
> individuals or outside a corporate firewall."
> 
> Seth
> 
> 
> > http://news.com.com/2100-1025-1000411.html?tag=sas_email
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Ruben I Safir | 9 May 2003 07:22

Re: Ballmer: DRM is the Future

Press Release: NY Fair Use http://fairuse.nylxs.com

New York City GNU/Linux NY Fair Use testifies for Fair Use at DMCA
Hearings AOL TimeWarner and the MPAA caught lying on the public record
by NYFairUse

At the May 2nd, 2003 hearing for exemptions to the anti-circumvention
provisions of the DMCA, NYFairUse (a subcommittee of NYLXS) confronted
several false statements in testimony given by the MPAA, CSS
Corporation, and AOL TimeWarner. CSS Corporation provides the encryption
system for all DVD disks produced by members of the MPAA. The falsehoods
stated by the content control industry swept through a whole gamut of
issues, ranging from the claim that Linus Torvalds said the GPL was
compatible with Digital Rights Management to an attempt to conceal that
regional coding was inaccessible without cracking the CSS encryption
system. Along the way AOL TimeWarner's representative claimed that
copyright holders had the right to say exactly where an individual was
allowed to watch DVDs.

NYFairUse chairman Ruben Safir offered his testimony after the witnesses
were introduced to the panel. In his opening remarks Mr. Safir stated
that the failure to legally play DVDs on a free operating system
deprived millions of people of their fair use rights. Mr. Safir went on
to say that although the class of works under discussion was
audio-visual, he had originally asked the copyright office to include
all copyrighted works which were purchased in a normal cash-and-carry
transaction without an explicit contract. The leader of NYFairUse then
read several passages out of the 4th and 5th amendments to the U.S.
Constitution, which guarantee the rights of individuals regarding their
private property and security in their homes. After reading the
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Larry Garfield | 9 May 2003 09:31
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[Fwd: Stop Media Monopoly]

Not DRM-related, yet, but I figure it's only a matter of time so I 
thought I would pass it on, if only for informational value.  A monopoly 
can impliment such measures much more easily and quietly than our 
current cartel.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Stop Media Monopoly
Date: 	Thu, 8 May 2003 15:06:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: 	Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org <moveon-help <at> list.moveon.org>
To: 	Larry Garfield <larry <at> garfieldtech.com>

Dear MoveOn member,

On June 2, the Federal Communications Commission is planning on
authorizing sweeping changes to the American news media. The rule
changes could allow your local TV stations, newspaper, radio stations,
and cable provider to all be owned by one company. NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox
could have the same corporate parent. The resulting concentration of
ownership could be deeply destructive to our democracy.

When we talk to Congresspeople about this issue, their response is
usually the same: "We only hear from media lobbyists on this. It seems
like my constituents aren't very concerned with this issue." A few
thousand emails could permanently change that perception. Please join us
in asking Congress and the FCC to fight media deregulation at:

http://www.moveon.org/stopthefcc/?id=1344-1603669-j7GyIEWlQ4uOEvpfHW5arw

After the FCC and Congress relaxed radio ownership rules, corporate
giant Clear Channel Communications swept in and bought hundreds of
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Seth Johnson | 9 May 2003 09:47
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The Register on 'Athens'


(Forwarded from Interesting People list)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [IP] 'Athens' - MS defines the next Windows PC standard
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 03:22:33 -0400
From: Dave Farber <dave <at> farber.net>
To: ip <ip <at> v2.listbox.com>

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30612.html

'Athens' - MS defines the next Windows PC standard
By John Lettice
Posted: 08/05/2003 at 11:23 GMT

OK, reality check. Your PC is fundamentally unreliable and broken. It
doesn't switch on immediately and stay on, working, like your stereo, TV,
fixed line or mobile phone, granny can't just play music and videos, stay
connected to the Internet and collect her emails without regular calls to
tech support (i.e., you), and in addition to making annoying whooshing,
whining and rattling noises the PC is prone to various hardware components
mysteriously dropping dead (or not so mysteriously, given that the noises
and the failures are frequently connected).

So having firmly framed that picture of PCs in the real world, let's hop
over to WinHEC 2003, where this week His Billness was happily recommending
integrating all of those pieces of equipment that do work into the one that
doesn't, that wondrous single point of failure the evil Wintel twins have
been failing to finish for nigh-on 20 years now. Last year's joint effort
with HP, the Agora concept PC, has now morphed into Athens, and is headed
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Jorge T | 9 May 2003 14:51
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Contra Factos.....


Por favor leia até ao fim, são apenas 3 ou 4 minutos que poderão mudar o
resto da sua vida. Se não tem tempo agora, deixe para mais logo mas leia
com calma. Isto é um assunto muito sério, encare-o como tal.

Factos:
Pode perder seis euros (no máximo dos máximos) o que não é propriamente uma fortuna.
Vai gastar 10 minutos do seu tempo.
Vai precisar duma caixa multibanco.
Pode ganhar muito dinheiro (mas mesmo muito).

Como? Basta ler e perceber as instruções.

Vamos a isto!

INSTRUÇÕES

1.  Deposite 1,00 (Um Euro) na conta de cada uma das seis pessoas que
estão indicadas na listagem abaixo. Isto pode ser feito de duas formas:
(1) transferência bancaria em qualquer caixa multibanco, através do NIB indicado ou (2) depósito na
conta-corrente, usando o nº que está na listagem.

2. Quando depositar Euro 1,00 (Um Euro) na conta-corrente das seis pessoas da lista, envie um e-mail para
cada uma delas com o seguinte texto: "Solicito que meu nome/e-mail seja incluído no seu cadastro de correspondências".
Esta é a chave do programa! Torna legalizada a operação bancaria e fica de acordo com a legislação vigente. A
legislação diz que todo dinheiro recebido deve ser trocado por um produto ou serviço.
Este é o serviço! (Posteriormente, as pessoas que fizerem depósitos na sua conta-corrente farão o mesmo.)

3. Após ter depositado Euro 1,00 (Um Euro) em cada uma das seis pessoas,
tire o nome da que esta no número 1 (um) e mude os nomes restantes para uma posição acima (o segundo nome passa
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