Begining 11/2/2005 the US copyright office will begin conducting a review of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to determine execptions. Since 1998 the DMCA has proved to be a huge step backwards for innovation and fair use of consumer rights. This would be a great time for supporters of progress and innovation to voice their concers to the US copyright office over this loosley worded law commonly abused by huge corporations.

The DMCA can directly affect the development and future of Linux, MythTV, and KnoppMyth in countless ways.

Use this link to voice your views and proposed changes.

http://www.copyright.gov/1201/comment_forms/index.html

Some concerns I am voicing.

-Right for consumers and companies to reverse engineer
-Fair use personal backup
-Fair use format conversion
-Encryption/Content protection removal of owned products

Read more...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051028-5493.html

Thanks for posting this.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!