Right, and part of the problem in fighting against this bill is that it's *so* long and this is just one small provision, so many people may overlook it or vote for it anyway because they like the rest of the bill.<br>
<br>I guess the question is how we get someone to propose a change to this specific section...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 10, 2008 6:20 PM, Gavin Baker <<a href="mailto:gavin@gavinbaker.com">gavin@gavinbaker.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br></div>Right, there are some provisions that should help control textbook<br>
costs, etc. It's gotta be a fairly decent bill for the House to vote so<br>overwhelmingly for it. That's why it's so nefarious to stick something<br>like this in, too.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>Fred Benenson wrote:<br>
| The general feeling is that other sections of the bill are not as bad as<br>| the onedealing with "digital theft" -- That campuses notify and explain<br>| copyright infringement and so on.<br>|<br>| My understanding is that there are also other sections that deal with<br>
| fair pricing of text books and so on.<br>|<br>| On Feb 10, 2008 2:30 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas <<a href="mailto:me@acm.jhu.edu">me@acm.jhu.edu</a><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">| <mailto:<a href="mailto:me@acm.jhu.edu">me@acm.jhu.edu</a>>> wrote:<br>
|<br>| Have any of you looked at the rest of this bill for what effects it<br>| might contain, good or bad? The copy I have here is 747 (!!) pages...<br>|<br>| --<br>| -vs<br>|<br>| The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but<br>
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