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Russell McOrmond

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Oct 20, 2004, 10:32:57 AM10/20/04

After receiving an email copy of the following article:
http://www.commonblog.com/story/2004/10/19/184947/35

I sent the attached reply.

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Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
Telling my story: The Life of one Hacker
Early draft, looking for comments and corrections of my memory.
http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/life-of-hacker.html

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:32:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Russell McOrmond <rus...@flora.ca>
To: "Lauren Coletta, Common Cause" <caus...@commoncause.org>
Subject: Re: Pull the Plug on Sinclair

I am curious: If media concentration is an issue for CommonCause, will
they be joining online activists in their opposition to Digital Rights
Management (DRM) and other techniques protected by the 1998 Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Currently you are dealing with media
concentration that has been built through the market, but with DRM
protected by the DMCA you have media concentration enacted in a
combination of east-coast-law (DMCA, enacted in Washington) and
west-coast-law (DRM, enacted as software authored in silicon valley and
embedded in communications devices).

The problems you observe are minor compared to where we will be in the
future.

Note: It was the "Democrats" that enacted the DMCA, and in many ways it is
the Democrats that must change their political views if there is to be any
future democracy in the USA.

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