Support the Digital Media Consumer Rights Act of 2005

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Robert

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June 19, 2005

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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