[ale] Moving my phone into the 20th Century

[Jim Kinney]

Yes. It was not the courts that wrote the stupid rule. But the courts are
generally where the designation "stupid rule" get applied :-)


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Chuck Peters <cp at axs.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And that 1 fact should be rammed down the courts throat to force a review
>> of that ruling.
>>
>
> The courts didn't do this...  The ineptitude of this falls on the US
> Congress and the DMCA law they made, and they left it up to the LIBRARIAN
> OF CONGRESS.
>
> In the article I cited,
> http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-most-ridiculous-law-of-2013-so-far-it-is-now-a-crime-to-unlock-your-smartphone/272552/,
> under the heading WHO REALLY OWNS YOUR PHONE?
> The DMCA leaves it up to the Librarian of Congress (LOC) to issue
> exemptions from the law, exceptions that were recognized to be necessary
> given the broad language of the statute that swept a number of ordinary
> acts and technologies as potential DMCA circumvention violations.
>
> Every three years groups like the American Foundation for the Blind have
> to lobby Congress to protect an exception for the blind allowing for books
> to be read aloud. Can you imagine a more ridiculous regulation than one
> that requires a lobby group for the blind to come to Capitol Hill every
> three years to explain that the blind still can't read books on their own
> and therefore need this exception?
>
>
> Chuck
>
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