Attention CA copyfighters
From BoingBoing:
A Pledgebank campaign is looking for constituents of California Senator Diane Feinstein to sign on to vote against her if she keeps on supporting the PERFORM act, which will ban MP3 streaming and mandate DRM for Internet audio.
Imagine not being able to email, copy, or edit any digital music file you get online. It specifically tramples on the concept of fair use, not to mention common sense. This is important, and Feinstein is being extremely knuckleheaded about it, probably due to campaign contributions from Hollywood.
When framed in the context of yesterday's defeat of the net neutrality amendment in the House, it's clear that 2006 is going to be a big year for deciding how much control the government and telcoms will have over the internet, and thus far the chips are not falling on the consumer's side. I believe that we'll manage to out-innovate most of these problems (new GoogleNetNeutral! mesh network every device! route all internet traffic via satellite thru France!), but it'd be great if we could use our skills in more productive ways.
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