News INDUCE Act Dead (at least this year)

Ubermich · 9 Oct 2004

Dear Save Betamax supporters,

Congratulations! Late yesterday, the news from Washington was in: the INDUCE Act is dead for the rest of the year. Thank you so much for the effort you put into contacting your Senators. Your work has made a difference, and if the RIAA and MPAA try again to pass INDUCE, we're 7,000 voters strong, we'll rally even more support, and we'll stop them.

The victory today was due in large part to amazing lobbying work done by the internet, telecommunications, and consumer electronics industries. Their people fought hard on Capitol Hill, and we came through with a strong public outcry to back them up. But it's our hope that, as the movement for sane copyright law continues to grow, it will be voters that lead the fight, with industry doing back-up. That's when politicians will start to realize that if they take orders from the RIAA and MPAA, there will be consequences on election day.

On that note, there's a new organization you all need to know about: IPac. IPac exists to "preserve individual freedom through balanced intellectual property policy." What distinguishes IPac from groups like the EFF or Public Knowledge is that their legal status lets them give money to candidates who are on our side, as well as attack politicians in the pocket of the big content lobby.

This is extremely important: IPac will be able to get people elected, and get people voted out (if you are considering running for office in 2006, please let them know by emailing matt@ipaction.org). IPac is the first of its kind and represents a huge step forward; please visit their webpage and consider donating to one of their candidates, or at the very least subscribing to their announcements list:

http://ipaction.org/

Finally, credit for this INDUCE Act victory goes to many groups: the EFF, Public Knowledge, librarian groups, the American Conservative Union, tech industries, and many others. But the infrastructure for the Save Betamax call-in day was a Downhill Battle production, and we need your help to cover our costs and support future efforts like it.

Most of all, we want to pay the developer who wrote the Save Betamax backend to build this tool into something that *any* group can use to coordinate *any* call-in day of their own. When this project is finished (we need to add an admin interface and several new features) we're going to release it under the GNU GPL. For all you non-geeks, that means we'll release the program and the source code as free for everyone to use.

Our fundraising goal is $1200. To make a donation, see how the expenses break down, or see more info on our plans for call-in day software, go here:

http://downhillbattle.org/Betamax_and_Beyond/

Thank you everyone for your support. And again, congratulations,

Sincerely,
Holmes Wilson
Rebecca Laurie
Tiffiniy Cheng
Nicholas Reville
Downhill Battle Team
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An e-mail sent to all savebetamax supporters. The INDUCE Act is dead, more to come.

More Linkage:
mp3NewsWire
MacWorld
and Newsday

Can I get a w00t!?

GreatOldOne · 9 Oct 2004

News of this magnitude needs to be on the front page. Way to go, 'mich.

RotoSequence · 9 Oct 2004

Uh, what was the induce act?

GreatOldOne · 9 Oct 2004

Where have you been? Mars?

Only Joking - Here's some links on Orrin Hatch's idiocy:

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=61954
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=64475
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=65508
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=67721

So you see, it's a cause for celebration - however, this is only round one - I can't see Hatch letting it lie.

fastbullit · 10 Oct 2004

i wish the founder of the "induce act" a horrible horrible death, the founder of tcpa can have a taste of it to

*thinking*
their legs off

theagent · 10 Oct 2004

hot damn!

Ubermich · 10 Oct 2004

GreatOldOne said:

News of this magnitude needs to be on the front page. Way to go, 'mich.
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Thank you sir Sometimes it pays to be an activist.

Of course Hatch wont let his baby die yet, but with ipaction.com on the ball, we can help to make sure his baby never lives. (As much as I tried to NOT make that sound like a plug, I realize it does. Note that I am not affiliated with ipaction.com. However, as the e-mail states, if you are running for public office in the US, you should contact them )

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Ubermich He did it!

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