Tech: Yahoo! News - Fair Use Bill Gains Ground: “Opponents of the DMCA’s anticircumvention provisions, including Barton and Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act sponsor Representative Rich Boucher (D-Virginia), argue the DMCA goes too far in making it illegal for consumers to break copy protections in an attempt to exercise their legal fair use rights, such as making backup copies of DVDs or excerpting a DVD or CD in a school report. ‘I think there is a growing consensus the DMCA went too far,’ Petricone says. ‘We are quite confident [Boucher’s bill] will pass. It may be now, it may be later.’”
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