![]() Of course the Movie Industry trotted out its usual lines about the terrors of piracy and how it needed protection even if it means that consumers cannot make copies for their personal use. Rick Boucher, with 15 members from both parties, is sponsoring a bill to loosen DMCA restrictions and said that the rights of individuals had been eroded. Doolittle (no really) one of the bill's co-sponsors, waved his Apple iPod at the committee members to make the point that when he voted for the DMCA in 1998 he didn’t realise that it would restrict his rights to make use of music he had legally purchased. The momentum for the idea is coming from the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on commerce, trade and consumer protection which wants a liberalisation of the millennium copyright act. ![]() THE US GOVERNMENT, long seen as a sheep to the lobbying of the movie industry, is considering allowing people to copy DVDs for their own use.
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