From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 21 12:25:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57B3F15676 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:25:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from workhorse (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA23177; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:24:02 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000121131307.01a32380@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:23:59 -0700 To: Jonathon McKitrick From: Brett Glass Subject: UCITA (Important) Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.2.20000120145704.01a24100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:49 AM 1/21/2000 , Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >Is this really in the works? That means once a piece of media is >purchased, only the owner may use it, and it is non-transferrable? That and MUCH worse. See the following links: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/12/217259&mode=nocomment http://www.4cite.org/ucta101.html http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/12/06/991206opfoster.xml http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/01/10/000110opfoster.xml http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/foster/991018ef.htm If you're as horrified as I am by the potential effects of UCITA, you may want to support or join an organization, formed by librarians, called 4cite (http://www.4cite.org/). Its member list, from its Web site, includes: American Association of Law Libraries American Library Association Art Libraries Society of North America Association of Research Libraries Caterpillar Inc. Commonwealth of Virginia State Networking Users Advisory Board Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Digital Future Coalition Electronic Frontier Foundation Infoworld International Communications Association John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company Law Office of Cem Kaner McLane Company Inc. National Consumer Law Center National Humanities Alliance Principal Financial Group Prudential Insurance Company of America Reynolds Metals Corporation Society for Information Management Special Libraries Association Virginia Association of Law Libraries See their Web site for more details. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message