20 tech-releated bills introduced by Congress

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Contact your Congressman/woman via snail mail or telephone and let them know how feel on issues such as these. E-mail does not get paid attention to as much.

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WASHINGTON ? U.S. lawmakers continue to pursue their high-tech agendas, having introduced about 20 tech-related bills in the first week of the new Congress alone and seeking dozens of new rules on piracy, privacy and security, among other issues.

Cyber security, digital piracy, identity-theft protections, spam limits, broadband expansion, Internet gambling and copyright protections top the 108th Congress' technology agenda. Already, about 50 bills can be found just by typing in "technology" in Congress' legislative database.

High priorities for industry groups include fighting more government technology mandates, the removal of barriers to e-commerce, tax credits for broadband and innovation, and making sure Congress doesn't try to alter the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was passed in 1998 to protect copyright holders from piracy. This bill is part of a larger digital-rights management debate.

"The biggest thunderclouds on the horizons -- and they're on the near-term horizon -- revolve around tech mandates and the DMCA," said Robert Cresanti, vice president of public policy for the Business Software Alliance.

"There will be numerous bills this year that will take a run at the DMCA that will raise concerns for us," Cresanti said.

Among them is the Digital Media Consumers Rights Act, introduced by Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., that gives consumers more fair-use rights for digital products and calls for copy-protected CDs to be clearly labeled if they include copy-proof technologies.

 

[brxndxn]

DAMMIT!!!

We're going to be technologically limited by the technologically iliterate!


EDIT: Except for the 'fair-use' part... that is good.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: brxndxn
DAMMIT!!!

We're going to be technologically limited by the technologically iliterate!


EDIT: Except for the 'fair-use' part... that is good.

no we're not, we're being technologically limited by the guys who wrote the software and paid for the representatives' campaigns.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: brxndxn
DAMMIT!!!

We're going to be technologically limited by the technologically iliterate!


EDIT: Except for the 'fair-use' part... that is good.

no we're not, we're being technologically limited by the guys who wrote the software and paid for the representatives' campaigns.

Geeks aren't politically active though. It's marketing that's spending money stuffing people's pockets.

 

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Among them is the Digital Media Consumers Rights Act, introduced by Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., that gives consumers more fair-use rights for digital products and calls for copy-protected CDs to be clearly labeled if they include copy-proof technologies.

Sounds like a winner to me.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: brxndxn
DAMMIT!!!

We're going to be technologically limited by the technologically iliterate!


EDIT: Except for the 'fair-use' part... that is good.

I didn't see any limitation bills listed. Can you point them out to me or are you just jumping to conclusions?