[PLUG] Fwd: another Oregon issue

[Ken Barber]

Folks,

This just came in from Chip Rosenthal in Texas, who has been 
working their open source bill.  I know that I've seen a few 
posts on this issue (below) here, so I presume there are people 
here who are already working this new threat.

Anyway, whomever it is that's taking up the fight against "super 
DMCA" here, please read this and get in contact with Chip.

Isn't politics fun?  It's like a game of whack 'em moles....

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Subject: another Oregon issue
Date: Sunday 11 May 2003 10:07
From: Chip Rosenthal <chip at unicom.com>
To: pundit at teleport.com, cooper at cooper.stevenson.name

Not about open source ... do you know anybody in Oregon that is
 interested in fighting the Super DMCA there?  You may have read
 about it ... the MPAA is going state-by-state trying to get this
 really nasty law against doing anything your network service
 provider doesn't expressly allow.

We (EFF-Austin) are making some progress here in Texas.  If there
 are some people in Oregon who are interested in doing the same,
 we can pass along some of what we learned.

I'll attach an email from our point person on that legislation.

P.S. Ken, love the Newsforge article.  I'll make sure Sen. Carona
knows about it.

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Chip Rosenthal * chip at unicom.com * http://www.unicom.com/
Support SB1579, the Texas Open Source Software Bill.
http://wiki.effaustin.org/index.php/SB1579

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