defend your right to build + use a home-built computer

[capybara]

Defeat the stupid Hollings bill. Send your representatives a fax.

www.digitalconsumer.org/cbdtpa/cbdtpa-inf.html

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Linkied

 

[roncarter]

shdup geek!

jk
hahaha

I shall stand up for my rights!!!

 

[XMan]

Get this up to the top! I suggest you might wanna make your thread title more eye-catching. I think this is something we should ALL be behind.

 

[StageLeft]

Perhaps if i knew wtf this was and that site had the common courtesy of summarizing the bill into one or two paragraphs instead of going off on a self-assumed tangeant I could have a stance on this...

 

[XMan]

Skoorb . . . the bill will make it illegal to tape a TV show to watch it later, make a copy of a CD you own to listen to it in your car or at the gym, make it illegal to reverse-engineer software, and severely inhibit open source software. And that's just a little bit of it.

 

[StageLeft]

<< Skoorb . . . the bill will make it illegal to tape a TV show to watch it later, make a copy of a CD you own to listen to it in your car or at the gym, make it illegal to reverse-engineer software, and severely inhibit open source software. And that's just a little bit of it. >>

What steps can they really take to do anything about it? I realize it would change some future technology but the recording of CD for instance nobody can do anything about that. I can still buy CDs "for data backups" and record music that I have on CD...well if I still bought CDs *wink*

 

[BadNewsBears]

Not to mention them seizing home built comps and prohibiting the bulding of comps at home.... Ill have a glock fo them when they take my baby away!

 

[XMan]

Well, if it becomes illegal to copy CDs, I'd say that there might be some sort of import restriction on CD burners, wouldn't you?

There have been a few threads on this topic already.

 

[wQuay]

<< What steps can they really take to do anything about it? >>



In a fascist state laws are numerous and ambiguous enough to guarantee that the police will have an excuse to arrest you should they ever want to. Punishment is not decided by guilty vs. innocent, but whether or not you have the power to defend yourself.

 

[XMan]

Prior thread w/Slashdot article

 

[HappyPuppy]

Does this mean I'm going to be arrested by the jack booted Gestapo pigs in the middle of the night just because I build my own computers?

 

[XMan]

Let's keep this at the top, shall we?

Does this mean I'm going to be arrested by the jack booted Gestapo pigs in the middle of the night just because I build my own computers?

The Wired article mentions fines of 5 years in prison and $500,000 fine, or $25,000 fine per offense.

 

[StageLeft]

hmm i really don't like that.

 

[yakko]

Bump.

 

[Platypus]

There is no way this will ever pass.

 

[IGBT]

I recall under a previous "fair use" settelment the recording/entertainment industry was given a share in the profits of all blank recordable media ie.audio/video tape, blank cd's and blank dvd recording media. So these industry parasites have been collecting this revenue for years. So now that isn't enough?? And if they get this new legislation will they forfeit the past gratuity they've been collecting??

 

[Lucky]

<< There is no way this will ever pass. >>




hopefully you are right. house also keeps passing anti-online gambling bills designed to restrict fund flow to online casinos. done it 4-5 times in the past 2 years, but it never pans out in the senate. I hate crap bills like this one! :|

 

[tomrizzo]

bump to the top!

 

[tomrizzo]

bump again

 

[hans007]

being able to reverse engineer software is very important. The bios of the ibm pc is a piece of code, and was reverse engineered by compaq engineers. with this bill we wouldnt have had ibm compatible pcs.

 

[Elledan]

<< being able to reverse engineer software is very important. The bios of the ibm pc is a piece of code, and was reverse engineered by compaq engineers. with this bill we wouldnt have had ibm compatible pcs. >>


..nor would there be a billion-dollar industry.

Just curious, how much profit is made in the IT-industry and how much in the movie- and music-industry?

 

[BadNewsBears]

ttt

 

[LuNoTiCK]

Yes, must keep this up...

 

[aphex]

bump^