On Friday 25 June 2004 12:38 pm, Alan Dayley wrote:
> The "Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act" has been introduced in the
> Senate.  This act would provide severe penalties for an entity that makes
> a product capable of being used for copyright infringement.  It would not
> matter if the product has other legal uses.
>
> For links and summaries of all the details, a good place is this slashdot
> story: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/25/1632252  Read the fake
> lawsuit from EFF.  This is bad stuff!
>
> Obviously you can make your own conclusions but I'll be writing letters
> this weekend!

I got finally got a response from one of the Arizona delegation.  John Kyl 
sent a nice, sympathetic but non-commital reply to my letter against the 
Inducement Act.  The sympathetic parts were:

"..., I agree that the manufacturers of technology such as CD burners and MP3 
players should be allowed to pursue new business opportunities -- and that 
the consumers of that technology should enjoy reasonable fair use protections 
in their own homes."

He then says that he will keep an eye on "activities with respect to copyright 
law" and will "be sure to keep [my] views in mind."

The wording is such that it could be easy to think that he agrees with me.  
However, he did not commit or really say that, out-right.  Not all bad but 
far from the solid statement I had hoped for.  Maybe I'll write again...

Alan
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