Oppose the PERFORM Act NOW!
The ticks who suck the blood of our freedom--the ones in the word "politics"--never sleep. This particular tick is Dianne Feinstein, a DEMOCRAT!
(...and people ask me why I have no loyalty to parties!) It's a wonder that we have any freedom left at all after more than 230 years since the founders attempted to preserve it.
Below is something very simple you can do to stop something that will further needlessly annoy and inconvenience us all.
Frank J. Gonzalez
Received 41% in 2006 vs. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, lampooned by Jon Stewart here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTLcgE_N_fo
Running again in 2008
Post Office Box 832586
Miami, FL 33283-2586
cell: 786-287-7491
Email address: voteliberty @bellsouth.net
Official campaign site: http://www.electfrank.org
Facebook campaign site: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500078956
MySpace campaign site: http://www.myspace.com/gonzalezforcongress
Email list of campaign updates & issues commentary: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/gofrank/
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
--founder of the Democratic Party, 3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
* Action Alert - Tell Congress to Keep DRM out of Radio! The new Congress has barely begun, but the major record labels are already up to their old tricks. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has re-introduced the PERFORM Act, a backdoor assault on your right to record off the radio. Satellite and digital radio stations as well as Internet webcasters would have to adopt digital rights management (DRM) restrictions or lose the statutory license for broadcasting music.
Letters from constituents like you helped beat this dangerous proposal last year -- take action now to block it again:
http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=221
This bill aims to hobble TiVo-like devices for satellite and digital radio. Such devices would be allowed to include "reasonable recording" features, but that excludes choosing and playing back selections based on song title, artist, or genre. Want to freely move recordings around your home network or copy them to the portable player of your choice? You'll be out of luck if PERFORM passes.
This bill would also mess with Internet radio. Today, Live365, Shoutcast, streaming radio stations included in iTunes, and myriad other smaller webcasters rely on MP3 streaming. PERFORM would in effect force them to use DRM- laden, proprietary formats, so you can say goodbye to software tools like Streamripper that let you record programming to listen to it later.
Tell your representatives to oppose the PERFORM Act now: http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=221
Learn more about the bill: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005078.php
Learn more about related bills:
http://www.eff.org/IP/digitalradio/
(...and people ask me why I have no loyalty to parties!) It's a wonder that we have any freedom left at all after more than 230 years since the founders attempted to preserve it.
Below is something very simple you can do to stop something that will further needlessly annoy and inconvenience us all.
Frank J. Gonzalez
Received 41% in 2006 vs. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, lampooned by Jon Stewart here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTLcgE_N_fo
Running again in 2008
Post Office Box 832586
Miami, FL 33283-2586
cell: 786-287-7491
Email address: voteliberty @bellsouth.net
Official campaign site: http://www.electfrank.org
Facebook campaign site: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500078956
MySpace campaign site: http://www.myspace.com/gonzalezforcongress
Email list of campaign updates & issues commentary: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/gofrank/
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."
--founder of the Democratic Party, 3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
* Action Alert - Tell Congress to Keep DRM out of Radio! The new Congress has barely begun, but the major record labels are already up to their old tricks. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has re-introduced the PERFORM Act, a backdoor assault on your right to record off the radio. Satellite and digital radio stations as well as Internet webcasters would have to adopt digital rights management (DRM) restrictions or lose the statutory license for broadcasting music.
Letters from constituents like you helped beat this dangerous proposal last year -- take action now to block it again:
http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=221
This bill aims to hobble TiVo-like devices for satellite and digital radio. Such devices would be allowed to include "reasonable recording" features, but that excludes choosing and playing back selections based on song title, artist, or genre. Want to freely move recordings around your home network or copy them to the portable player of your choice? You'll be out of luck if PERFORM passes.
This bill would also mess with Internet radio. Today, Live365, Shoutcast, streaming radio stations included in iTunes, and myriad other smaller webcasters rely on MP3 streaming. PERFORM would in effect force them to use DRM- laden, proprietary formats, so you can say goodbye to software tools like Streamripper that let you record programming to listen to it later.
Tell your representatives to oppose the PERFORM Act now: http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=221
Learn more about the bill: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005078.php
Learn more about related bills:
http://www.eff.org/IP/digitalradio/
rudkla - 18. Jan, 08:59
