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

[Davyd Madeley]

Stuart,

The UCC already has a copy of the petition up in the clubroom and is
currently working to get copies distributed to the engineering and
computer science schools.

Thanks,
--Davyd Madeley
UCC Secretary, 2006

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:35:17PM +1000, Stewart Smith wrote:

> 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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Davyd Madeley

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