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Congressman Hollywood Wants To Make DMCA Tougher 228

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 13, 2007 @02:53PM from the who-elects-these-guys dept.

Stormy seas writes "Congressman 'Hollywood' Howard Berman (D-CA) used a House subcommittee hearing today to express his view that the DMCA was in need of a rewrite. In his view, it doesn't go far enough. During his opening remarks for a hearing on the PRO-IP Act, Berman said that the DMCA's Safe Harbor needs further scrutiny and that it might be time to make filtering mandatory. There's more: Berman also 'wants to examine the "effectiveness of takedown notices" under the DMCA, and he'd like to take another look at whether filtering technology has advanced to the point where Congress ought to mandate it in certain situations.'"

Comment Re:idiots (Score 1) 397

by nnkx00 on Saturday July 21, 2007 @03:30PM (#19940107) Attached to: University of Kansas Adopts 'One Strike' Copyright Infringement Policy

Yeah, but nerds/geeks are still going to be the losers in the eyes of all the hot girls. Sorry buddy.

Source Control For Bills In Congress? 300

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @11:49PM from the real-subversion dept.

grepya writes "An article in Slate talks about the sneaky way a major change in the Patriot Act reauthorization bill was made by (possibly) a Congressional staffer without even his boss knowing about it. (The change increased the power of the Executive at the expense of the other two branches of government.) Now, I write software for a large and complex system containing millions of lines of code and I know that nobody could slip a single line of code into my project without my knowledge. This is because everything that goes into the build goes into a source control system, and email notification is generated to interested parties. This is for a body of work that affects perhaps a few hundred thousand people at most (our company and the combined population of all our customer organizations). Shouldn't the same process be applied to bills being debated in national legislatures that affect potentially hundreds of millions of people?"

Submission + - HP Sees Huge Linux Desktop Deals

Submitted by Anonymous on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @10:08PM

Anonymous writes: With all the talk about Dell and desktop Linux, HP has quietly been cutting some deals to provide "multi-thousands" of Linux-installed desktops, and, according to CRN, is suggesting factory-loaded Linux PCs are getting closer by the day.

Journal Journal: 12 year old faces criminal charges for pictures of herself. 2

Journal by twitter on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @09:05PM

The criminal justice system is reaching for a new low, this time threatening a 12 year old for taking pictures of herself. There is a victim in this case, unlike the recent cases, where a 15 year old girl and a 17 year old couple were threatened with hard time for their own protection.

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