[ale] [OT] Georgia Super-DMCA Update

[Geoffrey]

I wouldn't throw too much stuff in there, you'll confuse them.  I'd 
suggest that simply telling them that this would require virtually all 
companies to open up their internal networks to the internet and would 
also eliminate all telecommuting/teleworking would get their attention.

Robert Coggins wrote:
> Sounds great!  I would even say something about the refrigerators and
> other items in the future that will be using the internet.  These
> would be illegal too.  I would put it in right after you explain the
> items you already have.
> 
> Just my 2 cents.
> 
> Rob
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dylan Northrup" <docx at io.com> To:
> <ale at ale.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:34 PM Subject: Re:
> [ale] [OT] Georgia Super-DMCA Update
> 
> 
> 
>> Mike Lockhart wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Directions?  Any ideas what kinda notes i should take to be
>>> prepared for this? (i'm not the most politically aware person)
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Directions should be nice.  If offered the opportunity to speak,
>> here's what I'll try to say:
>> 
>> "Thank you for allowing me to speak.  I will be as brief as I can 
>> expressing my views on the broad impact of this legislation.  I am
>> a computer professional and use my broadband internet connection to
>>  telecommute to my job.  My boss is located in Virginia, his boss
>> is located in California and my company is based out of Texas.  Yet
>> I choose to live, work, pay taxes and vote in Georgia because I
>> enjoy the freedoms, culture and lifestyle that it affords.  In
>> addition, by telecommuting as I do and not driving into an office,
>> I do not contribute to the traffic congestion that is endemic to
>> working in and around Atlanta.  As a computer professional, I have
>> several machines at home that all can communicate with the
>> Internet.  A desktop computer, a laptop, multiple servers and two
>> game systems. I plan on purchasing more "internet aware" devices in
>> the near future including a Tivo, another game system, a computer
>> for my son and more test servers to help with my professional
>> growth.  I currently do this all with a single internet connection
>> using a device that mediates or proxies my outgoing connections.
>> It is a convenience to have my computers all connected to the
>> internet concurrently. I avoid having to disconnect one host and 
>> connect another, one of the benefits highly touted by phone and
>> cable companies when they market their high speed internet
>> services.  In addition, it is a security measure.  Because the
>> computers on my network are hidden behind a firewall that conceals
>> the origin of traffic from and the destination of return traffic to
>> devices on my home network., no computer on the Internet can
>> contact any machine on my home network unless I allow it.  This
>> affords me protection from malicious hackers, viruses and those
>> willing to exploit new vulnerabilities with software running on
>> computers connected to my internal network.
>> 
>> If this bill passes there are several provisions I will be in
>> violation of.  My wireless access point is a retransmitting
>> commucations device. My web browser decrypts online purchases and
>> bank transactions without contacting my ISP for permission.  When I
>> purchase a newer model of router and sell my old one on ebay I will
>> be advertising for sale and transferring to another a
>> communications device that conceals the origin and destination of
>> traffic.  Because of the overly broad nature of the definitions of
>> communications device, communication service and communication
>> service provider I will be in violation of several aspects of this
>> law even though I have not committed any other crime and do not 
>> intend to do so in the future.  I will be forced to either carry on
>> in violation of the law and hope that judicial interpretation
>> eventually curtails or overrules this overly broad legislative
>> language; change the way I work and live thereby reducing my
>> quality of life and introducing more stress into my already busy
>> and overworked time; or relocate away from the state that I had
>> hoped to make a home for myself and my family for years and decades
>> to come.  I would hope the committee would consider the legislation
>> before it and do everything in its power to prevent its passage.  I
>> am one of thousands and tens of thousands high tech employees in
>> this state that would be affected by this legislation and won't be
>> the only one considering whether to take my family, my job and my
>> taxes elsewhere.
>> 
>> Thank you for your time."
>> 
>> 
>> Doing a read through, this clocks in at just over two minutes.  I
>> am trying to figure out how to squeeze in something about pervasive
>>  consumer electronics devices in the future that will be internet
>> aware, but can't figure out the right verbiage.  If I can't think
>> of something, I'll just go with what I have here.
>> 
>> -- Dylan Northrup <*> docx at io.com <*> http://www.io.com/~docx/ 
>> "Easy to bitch, easy to whine, easy to moan, easy to cry, easy to
>> feel like there ain't nothing in your life. Harder to work, harder
>> to strive, hard to be glad to be alive, but it's really worth it if
>> you give it a try."  -- Cowboy Mouth, 'Easy'
>> 
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