Now, PAY ATTENTION This Time, Dammit!

There's no post summaries this time; it's not that long.

You know how I'm always going on about the RIAA and MPAA and how they are orchestrating a huge campaign to obliterate our rights of fair use of media such as music and movies, and how they suck, and should be destroyed?

You should, if you've been reading this blog for more than a week or two.

Well, now you can help stop them in their tracks.

This is the text of House Resolution 1201, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2005. In effect, it amends the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to codify into law the fair use right, and allow technological advancement to proceed, by designating scientific research as a non-infringing use of digital media and its offshoots.

If this law passes, your VCR is safe. So is your CD burner, DVD burner, TiVo, MP3 player, and PlayStation Portable. You really, really, really want this bill to pass. Trust me.

Because I am such a swell guy, as anyone who knows me will lie to you about, THIS RIGHT HERE CLICK HERE NOW!!! is a link to the form on the Electronic Frontier Foundation website where you can send a message to your elected representative, requesting his (or her) support for the bill. The RIAA and MPAA are spending millions upon millions of dollars to defeat this bill; all you can do is send an email, but emails can swing it if we send enough of them. Click the link. Send a message to your Congressman that you are tired of the RIAA's crap.