MESSAGE
| DATE | 2006-06-06 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] 24 Hours to Save Internet Fair Use
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Here is one even better. Regardless on how this turns out, if we can
get through the phones on this show, that would be a great thing.
Congressman Weiner tackles homeland security waste and Ann Coulter's
outragous comments about 9/11 families on Air America's Al Franken show.
Tune in to Air America Radio TOMORROW, Wednesday, June 7th from 2:30 PM
to 3:00 PM.
Click here to listen live, or set your radio to 1190 AM in New York
City.
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 18:43, Ruben Safir wrote:
> Everyone needs to call Congressman Weiners Office on this
> matter. He in on that committee
>
> The individual in charge of this area is named Ben Alfack?
>
> Ruben
>
> Washington DC Phone Number
> 1-202-225-6616
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:29:07PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> > This is very fustrating because I have no idea how this worked out and I
> > just got information on this at 6:20PM.
> >
> >
> > In addition to that, since Mr Jay and Mr Brett has destroyed the foundation
> > of NY Fair Use, we don't currently that mechanisms in place to respond rapidly
> > to this. For example, we had a phone tag set up where teams of people would call
> > each other to quickly mobilize phone calls to DC to put the breaks on something
> > like this until it can be looked at further.
> >
> > This gets to the raw fundementals of political action which was ripped
> > apart by the egos of Jay and Brett. They insisted on not doing the hard
> > work which is needed to remain vigilant on a single issue, DRM and Fair Use,
> > and instead insisted on doing what gave them personally the most amount of photo
> > ops :ie to play wack the mole with every issue.
> >
> > If you want to be effective, you need to politically organized, everyone
> > marching to the same tune, everyone reinforcing the same message, relentlessly
> > plugging at every chance the same exact message.
> >
> >
> > And then it takes a positive agenda. Not. what you don't want, but a
> > legistlative agenda for what you do press, and relentlessly press. Otherwise
> > crap like this happens because these greedy mother fuckers are mandated to
> > never relent to making more profit for the company and if the result is that the
> > internet ends, what do they give a shit.
> >
> > Ruben
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:13:30PM -0400, WWWhatsup wrote:
> > >
> > > 24 Hours to Save Internet Fair Use
> > >
> > > The entertainment industry has sneaked language into an obscure
> > > copyright bill that could smash Internet fair use. The law implies
> > > that licenses from copyright holders are needed for every digital
> > > copy made in the transmission of digital media -- including cached
> > > copies on servers or on your hard drive, and even temporary copies
> > > in RAM. The wording is being debated in a House Judiciary
> > > subcommittee on Wednesday. Don't let the music industry turn your
> > > cache into their cash. Check below to see if your representative
> > > is on the right committee, and call them now!
> > >
> > > http://action.eff.org/sira
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > WWWhatsup NYC
> > > http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > --
> > __________________________
> > Brooklyn Linux Solutions
> >
> > So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> > that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> > proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> >
> > DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> > http://fairuse.nylxs.com
> >
> > "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"
> >
> > "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming
> > sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need
> > the ability to participate in our own society."
> >
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> > http://www.inns.net <-- Happy Clients
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