[GLLUG] Re: The @#$%ing SSSCA

[Ben Pfaff]

SzidikM@mlcnet.org writes:

> Thanks for doing the legwork of getting the email addresses for our
> senators.  You made it easy for me to email my senators for the very first
> time.  I hope everyone on the list will take the 10 seconds to forward this
> note to them.
> 
> What did I write?  A one liner.  "I am writing to inform you that I
> strongly oppose S.2048."  I hope thats all that is necessary.

Here's what I mail-merged.  It's a lousy letter but I was in a
hurry.

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\address{12167 Airport Rd \\
         DeWitt MI 48820}
\signature{Ben Pfaff}
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\opening{%TITLE% %LASTNAME%,}

As a registered voter in your district (currently studying at Stanford
University in California), I am writing to urge you to oppose S.~2048,
the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA),
recently introduced in the Senate by Sen.~Fritz Hollings.  

This bill, should it become law, will place a heavy burden on
manufacturers of computer and consumer electronics hardware and
authors of computer software.  It will drive up costs of production
for all hardware and software that can deal with digital content.  In
short, the CBDTPA is bad for the consumer.

Implementation of the CBDTPA will likely outlaw such useful ``open
source'' projects as Linux.  It will further erode consumer fair use
rights that were already diminished by the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998.  It will also act to prevent individual
artists not backed by large corporations from publishing their own
content.

Again, I urge you to oppose this bill.

\closing{Sincerely,}

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