Robert Thank you for using American Library Association Mail System Message sent to the following recipients: Representative Stark Message text follows: Robert where-I-live June 19, 2005 [recipient address was inserted here] Dear [recipient name was inserted here], Please support the "Digital Media Consumers Rights Act of 2005." The bill is a new version of H.R. 107, which was introduced in the 108th Congress and was the subject of a day-long hearing in May 2004.This bill will: * Amend Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to allow bypassing a technological lock that controls access to and use of a copyrighted work - if the circumvention does not result in infringement of the work. * Codify the U.S. Supreme Court's 1984 ruling that a copying technology (in that case, the videocassette recorder) is permissible under the Copyright Act so long as it can be used for non-infringing as well as infringing purposes. * Broaden allowances for anti-circumvention scientific research (for example, to allow scientists to research the strength and reliability of technological locks, without subjecting themselves to civil and criminal penalties). * Require proper labeling of "copy-protected" compact disks so that consumers know when they buy a CD what device it can be played on. These are needed improvements over the current draconian DMCA Act. Thanks. Sincerely, Robert