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Still wondering why we keep ranting about the DMCA? Check out Ed Foster‘s post on Diebold’s campaign to hush up critics of its buggy electronic voting machines. The Copyfight blog aptly quoted Foster’s nifty rewrite of the First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the speech, or of the press … except as needed to allow trademark and copyright holders complete power to control discussions about their brands.

Remember, Bill Clinton signed off on the DMCA. Does your silence, Governor Blogger, mean you may well do the same on similar bills? Same question for other Dem candidates. Is free speech advocate Bruce Lehman gonna be your IP Czar, too? And continue his actual attempted rewriting of Constitution? Oh, well, Dems, when it comes to media conglomerates, you’ll get what you deserve.

But back to Ed Foster. Also read what he said about Microsoft-style DRM.

Update, 10:06 a.m.: Copyfight points to links dissecting the less-than-perfect reporting of the DMCA ruling from the Copyright Office

 
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