An update on Collections of Information Antipiracy act

Subject: An update on Collections of Information Antipiracy act
Andy Oram (andyo@ora.com)
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 11:23:56 -0400

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Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980507112354.007b7690@ruby.ora.com>
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 11:23:56 -0400
To: roundtable@cni.org, tpr-ne@mitvma.mit.edu
From: Andy Oram <andyo@ora.com>
Subject: An update on Collections of Information Antipiracy act

I was worried about the possible passage of this bill, which EFF circulated
an alert about earlier this week. I think the alert went to these lists (if
not, you would probably be interested in the issue anyway!).

Anyway, a Congressional staffer just told me that the bill did not come to
a vote. It's officially on the "suspensions calendar," which as you might
assume means nobody knows if or when it will be voted on.

This makes me happy, because I think the bill was extremely poorly drawn.
If you don't know anything about, let me egotistically suggest a couple of
my articles:

  http://www.oreilly.com/~andyo/ar/db_prot.html
  http://www.oreilly.com/~andyo/ar/copyright_theft.html

Feel free to forward this mail where appropriate.

Andy

Andy Oram
<andyo@ora.com>

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