US Copyright Office Considering MSIE-only website

wikinerd writes "The United States Copyright Office asks whether you would have any problem if you were required to use Microsoft Internet Explorer in order to pre-register a work via their website. The Norwegian government recently said no to proprietary formats, but it seems that the US government sites should be informed about the existence of non-Microsoft Web browsers, such as Firefox, Konqueror, Opera, and Safari. I have written a letter about this issue, which is posted on my blog for everyone to copy and base on it their own response. If they see how many people use alternative browsers, they'll probably reconsider and stay within the W3C standards."

But...

[Anonymous Coward]

...how should I learn to care about copyrights of others when I can't access this site?

m$ domination

[joet3ch1]

m$ is hogging all the patents anyways... so we might as well use their browser!

Slashdot Considers Dupe Free Website

[Quarters]

Hahaha, I kid, I kid.

Standards

[alnapp]

Just stick to the standards, then all browsers will be able to access it.

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etc.

Poor Copyright Office!

[OwlWhacker]

Perhaps the Copyright Office doesn't have enough cash to pay a competent Web developer to create its site?

From TFA...

[jpellino]

"If hand delivered by a private party, an original and five copies of any comment should be brought to Room LM-401 of the James Madison Memorial Building between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and the envelope should be addressed as follows: Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office, James Madison Memorial Building, Room LM-401, 101 Independence Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20559-6000. If hand delivered by a commercial courier, an original and five copies of any comment must be delivered to the Congressional Courier Acceptance Site located at Second and D Streets, NE., Washington, DC, between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. The envelope should be addressed as follows: Copyright Office General Counsel, Room LM-403, James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Avenue, SE., Washington, DC. If sent by mail, an original and five copies of any comment should be addressed to: Copyright GC/ I&R, P.O. Box 70400, Southwest Station, Washington, DC 20024-0400. Comments may not be delivered by means of overnight delivery services such as Federal Express, United Parcel Service, etc., due to delays in processing receipt of such deliveries."

Which is French for...

      "But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."
      "Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anybody or anything."
      "But the plans were on display ..."
      "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
      "That's the display department."
      "With a torch."
      "Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
      "So had the stairs."
      "But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
      "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard."

Re:Swings and Roundabouts

[charlesbakerharris]

Write an intelligent and well-informed comment to:

You must be new here...

Re:From TFA...

[Dunbal]

an original and five copies of any comment must be delivered to the Congressional Courier Acceptance Site located at

      You'd think the fine folks at the US Copyright Office would own a photocopier...oh, wait!

Re:Standards

[mrRay720]

In particular, if a blind user comes to our website, they should see something...

What are you - Jesus or something?

MS Patents

[jim_v2000]

In other news, Microsoft filed a patent today for an "Interface for accessing an online database of patents".

Re:Interesting

[benjamindees]

1995 U.S. sues Microsoft
2000 U.S. drops suit
2003 U.S. uses Microsoft software exclusively
2005 U.S. forces citizens to use MS software to access government sites
you are here
2012 U.S. forces everyone to use MS software to access the internet
2018 U.S. implants citizens with microchip running MS software
2020 U.S. uses MS software/implants to read your thoughts
2030 U.S. uses MS software/implants to control your actions

Re:Quite right

[ShieldW0lf]

Oh no. You don't get to pass it off as laziness. You didn't need to read the article or the summary, the title clearly states that it's referring to the copyright office. This was clearly a bad case of dumb.

That's it, give me your mouse and glasses, you're suspended.

Re:Swings and Roundabouts

[Ixne]

You must stamp it with a "COPY" rubber stamp. Duh.

Re:Swings and Roundabouts

[Cygnus78]

So you need to go by a rubber stamp to write to them... I am giving up.

Sample for you slashbotters

[ad0gg]

Dear Coypright GC,

OMGWTF!!! U = N00BS!!!1 F1r3f0x pwns IE.
K BYE..

gg
Your Name.

Re:Interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

2019 U.S. citizens fall-over without warning.

Unless they uncheck the Automatically Restart option. Then they turn blue and stand still until someone pokes them in the belly-button.

Establishment of Religion

[bookhappy]

Isn't there something in the Constitution about no Government establishment of religion? 'nuf said