Just when you think you’ve begun to make a difference: Bill C-60.
(PDF Link. Be warned, Enemies of Adobe! Also, here’s how to contact your MP.)
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restraint.org is a loose collection of writing, links, ravings, photos, news, fiction, and bad poetry by Jairus Khan. This website has been here (off and on) for ten years or so, and was around in various other forms for three or four years before that.
I spend most of my off-hours working (in Ottawa, Canada) to promote underground arts and media, and trying to keep independent music from being smothered by an anachronism popularly known as ‘the industry’. I DJ weekly, promote concerts/festivals regularly, make beep-beep noises in an industrial-metal band, and release CC-licensed albums for my industrial-slash-experimental-electronic project Ad·ver·sary, which sounds something like robots fucking to My Bloody Valentine.
When I’m not working with, promoting, listening to, or writing music, I design very angry websites, flyers, book jackets, and the sort for various arts projects. I supplement my music/design income (roughly enough to buy a pocketful of buttons a month) by developing counter-hacking courses and moonlighting as a web coordinator for the man.
I also bake very tasty cookies.
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can you clarify what i’ve just been reading, please? =]
i r teh stoopid (and so on)
New copyright reform bill that grants more rights to labels, less rights to individuals.
I’ll see if I can find an analysis of it, and post it.
Analysis!
thank you! *madhugz*
now that i can wrap my brain around. ;P
Maybe it’s because the copyright people are a few floors away, but this had been the source of much chatter (and discontentment) around the office. While we didn’t get a copy of the bill, it was well known what would be in there and that we should be angry about it.
I believe that we share MPs. Should we visit Dave and have words with him? Just words mind you…
I was hoping to do that in the next day or two, actually. When are you free?
Its all about Adobe!
(soon to be the microsoft of the digital arts! Woo!)
Well, PDFs are good, at least if you learn how to make them. I wish more people took the time to read about what they can do, and of course, to always use distiller! dammit!
Well, I’m usually done work around 5pm each day. I am however on vacation from July 4th through the 8th. I think that we really need to get together a group of people from our area and book a meeting with our representative to discuss this bill and how we feel that it negatively effects a free market society especially when the privileges of the companies outweigh those of the consumers.
doesn’t it come with a manual when a person buys the product?
The sad (and short) answer to that question now is: no.
Adobe stopped sending out the manuals with the products a few years ago (at least) and now only have the PDF you can “Print yourself”.. yea thanks-nothanks Adobe.
Besides, they made the WORST manuals. So boring. Everyone would get a copy of the Bible to really learn. No one thinks to ‘learn’ about Acrobat either.. they think it just makes PDFs. heh.
There’s always Xpdf. More info on C60 here , there’s a petition on the site too.
Sorry about the lateness of this comment.