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I am in Ohio, but I thought that message was only to indicate those states
who had senators on the board ... I would have thought you could voice your
opinions regardless of your state of residence. But did not verify.
-- M. Shane Sturgeon
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I tried to do this now, but the site says it is only:
"For Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana,
Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South
Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
constituents." I am not one of these (unfortunately).
I say unfortunately because even as a copyright attorney, I vehemently
oppose the broadcast flag. To me, it is no red/blue or blue/red thing (PC,
said in both directions), but directly ON/OFF (power), B/W (color/non-color
extremes), or 1/0 (digital 1 or 0). This should be an Us (consumers) vs.
them (content providers) thing definitely reminiscent over the VCR and the
Betamax case, the Home Recording Act that made recording record to
cassettes
legal (stupid), the amendments to the HRA that let in Mini-Disc when they
did not want it (and killed several other electronic devices on the way,
too), and all the machinations the government can issue (like the DMCA),
when they (the content providers) claim some technology will trash their
market, even when VCRs and DVDs, even recordable, have not. The
Napster/Grokster situation still has not stopped CD sales, and I believe
from my family example, that downloading is not why CD or music sales are
off. My two teenagers do not download, and they use their money and their
gift cards to buy far more music DVDs (and movies too) now than CDs. The
younger one has ripped our entire CD collection to mp3 to store it on a
portable and buys new ones as needed.
If you can do this because you are from the given State group, please do
it.
I thank you and consumers everywhere should (even though most are unaware
of
this issue).
Jordan Meschkow
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