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State Super-DMCA Too True
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson () greendragon com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 15:53:32 -0500
Declan McCullagh sent out an email 7:56 am EST this morning, referencing his full report at: http://news.com.com/2100-1028-994667.html I was shocked to see that Michigan has *already* passed such a law! (Also Virginia, Delaware, and Illinois.) I've found the new law(s), and they basically outlaw my living in Michigan starting March 31st (this Monday, two days from now): http://www.michiganlegislature.org/printDocument.asp?objName=mcl-750-219a-amended&version=txt http://www.michiganlegislature.org/printDocument.asp?objName=mcl-750-540c-amended&version=txt The Bill analysis basically quotes the MPAA website! http://michiganlegislature.org/documents/2001-2002/billanalysis/house/htm/2001-HLA-6079-b.htm It outlaws all encryption, and all remailers. It outlaws connecting any device "without the express authority of the telecommunications service provider". No NATs. No wireless. (Some DSL/cable companies try to charge per machine, and record the machine address of the devices connected.) It outlaws configuring your ISDN to be a voice device, and then sending data over the device. (Most folks around here are willing to settle for 56Kbps + 56Kbps -- fixed fee -- instead of 64Kbps + 64Kbps -- per minute.) It outlaws configuring a wire pair purchased as a burglar alarm circuit, and then using it as DSL. It outlaws using Linux/*BSD for reading DVDs and a host of other things. Also, "reprogramming" a device (and software and computer chips are explicitly included) "that is capable of facilitating the interception, transmission, retransmission, decryption, acquisition, or reception of any telecommunications, transmissions, signals, or services" would seem to prohibit mod'ing of M$ Xboxen. Heck, it is possible to read this Act to prohibit changing your operating system from M$ to Linux. This was passed in a lame duck session (December 11, 2002) as part of a big omnibus crime act that covered everything from "adulteration of butter and cream", to "trick or acrobatic flying" to "false weights and measures", mostly increasing fines and/or jail for existing offenses. Michigan is a leader in overcrowding its prisons. There was other lame duck legislation passed, before a new Governor took office, almost all of it bad for civil liberties! -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
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- Re: is this true or... ? Lars Erik Gullerud (Mar 29)
- State Super-DMCA Too True William Allen Simpson (Mar 29)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True E.B. Dreger (Mar 29)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Jack Bates (Mar 29)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True E.B. Dreger (Mar 29)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Tony Rall (Mar 29)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Simon Lyall (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Dan Hollis (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Mike Lyon (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Jack Bates (Mar 30)
- Re: State Super-DMCA Too True Robert A. Hayden (Mar 30)