Re: [dvd-discuss] Going on the offense.

[Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org]

I think it was John von Neumann who came up with the idea that the program 
would be resident in memory just as the data would be.....considering his 
views on "social irresponsibility" he must be laughing in his grave about 
the whole debate going on now on digital rights management, intellectual 
property, the internet, and the humble personal computer that sits before 
you.




Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>
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Kurt Hockenbury writes:

> Surely there are a few sympathetic members of Congress we can get to 
introduce
> the legislation we want, instead of the legislation the MPAA & co want?

Rep. Rick Boucher has been interested.

http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Sklyarov/boucher_ashcroft_dmca.html

Of course, a Senator is somewhat more powerful than a Representative.

-- 
Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> | Its really terrible when FBI 
arrested
Temp.  http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | hacker, who visited USA with peacefull
down:  http://www.loyalty.org/   (CAF) | mission -- to share his knowledge with
     http://www.freesklyarov.org/      | american nation.  (Ilya V. Vasilyev)