[committee] Petitition: Don't ban Digital Innovation and Consumer rights

[Stewart Smith]

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 (stewart at linux.org.au), call
me 0438844332, or mail Rusty (rusty at linux.org.au) or call Rusty 0417
451212.

thanks for your time,
stewart
-- 
Stewart Smith (stewart at linux.org.au)
Committee Member, Linux Australia

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