FWD: Petitition: Don't ban Digital Innovation and Consumer rights

On 6/20/06, Stewart Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We (Linux Australia) are co-ordinating a petition to the Parliament to
> clearly tie circumvention offenses to things which assist piracy, not
> activities such as playing our own DVDs or games without explicit
> permission.
>
> We have information up on the web at:
> * http://www.linux.org.au/law/
> * http://iownmymusic.org/
>
> And a copy of the Q&A Session with Rusty at:
> http://mirror.linux.org.au/podcasts/la-update/RustyRussell-TPM-Laws-q4-hi.ogg
> and the slides at:
> http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/la-online-presentation/siframes.html
>
> As part of this effort, we are making copies of the petition to get to
> members of usergroups. We hope that these members can talk to friends,
> family, co-workers (and more!) and get them to sign the petition.
>
> The more signatures the better, we need to convince people that this
> issue is important and matters to us. We *need* a seat at the table on
> this discussion and it's not going to be an easy thing to get.
>
> I'd like to know about how many members you could get a copy of the
> petition to. For example, LUV (Linux Users of Victoria) has about 60-80
> people show up each month - I'll be distributing about 100 copies to
> LUV.
>
> Also, an address for delivery.
>
> You should expect the package later this week or early next week.
>
> We should also be able to enclose return postage for the copies sent to
> your user group.
>
> We are mailing physical copies rather than just relying on people to
> download, print, sign and mail the PDF to really encourage people to get
> as many signatures as possible.
>
> I'm available to answer any questions, as is Rusty (the co-ordinator of
> this effort). So don't hesitate to email me ([email protected]), call
> me 0438844332, or mail Rusty ([email protected]) or call Rusty 0417
> 451212.
>
> thanks for your time,
> stewart
> --
> Stewart Smith ([email protected])
> Committee Member, Linux Australia
>
>
>


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