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| Rent-a-Senator |
| 06.24.04 (10:32 am) [edit] |
It seems like certain members of the Senate don't credit us citizens with free will. As reported by Wired News, the Inducing of Copyright Infringement Act of 2004, introduced today by the RIAA's pet legislator, would make it illegal for businesses to "induce" others to pirate copyrighted materials by making tools to help them do it.
As Senator Hatch describes the bill, it is intended to, "simply confirm that existing law would allow artists to bring civil actions against parties who intend to induce others to infringe copyrights."
So, I guess that means that if it's already against the law, then we need more laws to say, "I told you so."
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| Good call, FTC |
| 06.16.04 (10:39 am) [edit] |
The FTC announced yesterday that they did not think the time was right for a national Do-Not-Spam registry.
Good call — until the technology is redesigned to make it possible to enforce it, a Do-Not-Spam registry would only make it easier for spammers to add your address to their lists.
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| Hey, Brother |
| 06.16.04 (10:33 am) [edit] |
I read today that Congress is considering relaxing some of the restrictions on fax spam.
Hey, why doesn't someone build a fax machine with a hard drive that caches the faxes it receives and then lets you decide which ones are worth printing? Toner is expensive.
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| DMA |
| 06.04.04 (6:24 am) [edit] |
Four months after we filled out the form and mailed it, the Direct Marketing Association has sent us a confirmation that our home address has been added to their Do-Not-Mail list.
But just in case we misunderstood, they have included a helpful postage-paid card that will let us opt back in to several different categories of snail mail spam.
Come on guys, when will you get it? No means no.
I wonder what the costs of mail handling for our opt-out form, manually entering our address into your database, mailing that confirmation letter, and including that postage-paid opt back in card come to? Could it be that in the long term an online service that lets people enter their opt out choices directly into your systems would cost you less? Hmm. Might it be that the reason you prefer to do business by mail, and charge a fee to users of your online service, is just one more subtle way to discourage people from actually using your opt-out service?
I guess this is how self-regulation by the industry works.
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| SpoofStick update |
| 06.04.04 (6:05 am) [edit] |
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SpoofStick version 1.01 for IE is out. New features listed here.
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