Non-DMCA countries may save USA voters [View All]

[BevHarris]

Yes, there are some. Countries that have turned down the DMCA requirements, thumbing their noses at USA foreign aid.

In a matter as critically important as our vote, both civil disobedience and workarounds are entirely appropriate, because what we have here is a set of memos and software that proves the voting machines used in 37 states have been tamper-friendly, and that the corporate culture has been to flaunt certification and testing requirements.

I've been told that another set of memos may appear shortly, and I commend those who are assisting with this. A longer term solution, since Diebold tends to succeed in getting the memos removed within 2-3 days, and because the press needs time to examine the memos, is to extend the period of time the memos are hosted on a server, in order to allow the press to get a good look at them.

Therefore, let us take a moment to research and compile a list of countries who refuse to cooperate with the DMCA, a regulation which was ostensibly designed to prevent the pirating of music and movies, but is now being used to stifle the flow of information and facts which are critical to the public interest.

Of particular interest, I think, is to find out whether Brazil and Venezuela comply. I am not sure Norway complies, either, perhaps someone can verify that.

The compilation of such a list will bring advantages to many civil rights and political activist groups, and here's why: Through privatization, our public commons has been usurped by private organizations who then decline to allow any scrutiny of what they are doing with OUR taxpayer dollars and OUR rights, by asserting proprietary priveleges and copyright.

Diebold did an interesting thing when it authenticated those memos ("we wrote them, they belong to us, we assert copyright"). The reason is this: The memos clearly show intent to violate the law, most egregiously with the habitual use of uncertified, untested vote-tallying software. In the memos are statements like "what good are rules if you don't bend them now and then." It is of paramount importance for as many members of Congress, the press, and public officials to see the disregard heaped on FEC regulations, and for this the memos would be well served to reside in one place for a month or so.

Will non-DMCA countries end up championing civil rights in the United States? Maybe so. Perhaps they will save our vote.

Bev Harris

NOTE: Remember the thread-locking problem? I urge those who respond to ignore flame-baiting and stay affixed to the topic of this thread. Ignoring off-topic and argumentative posts is an option that reduces them, you know.