[sdiy] WTO + WIPO = DMCA (fwd)

Peter Snow psnow at magma.ca
Thu Feb 14 01:46:22 CET 2002


Very true Scott. 
The same site also posted a form letter and various addresses to send it to to register your
displeasure... that may work better.

Personally I am not a big believer in petitions.  These companies understand only one thing -
money.  So I would vote with my $ and just say "no" to crippled CDs.

Peter


Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
> 
> I'm certainly no lawyer, but AFAIK, internet petitions
> aren't worth spit.  The "signers" aren't signing, so
> there's no way to verify them.  There's no way to
> know that the same person didn't "sign" multiple times
> with different "names".
> 
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