DMCA law makes you a criminal for pressing the shift key
 Saturday, October 11, 2003by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: RIAA, music piracy, DMCA |
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This story highlights the absurdity of the ongoing DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and its Police State-like implications. Because the law makes it a crime to circumvent copyright mechanisms on intellectual property, and since you can circumvent the copyright on these protected CDs by pressing the shift key as they load, pressing the shift key makes you an instant criminal under federal law.
As the story suggests, this also potentially makes all keyboard manufacturers accomplices in crime, since they manufacture the "device" (the keyboard) that allows users to crack the protection mechanism.
As all this is designed to point out, the current DMCA law is quite ridiculous and has no place in a free society. It was promoted through the paranoia of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) which has since demonstrated its true intentions by, for example, suing 12 year old girls for downloading MP3 files.
As this law demonstrates, the DMCA is the result of a dangerous overreaction to the problem of online music piracy -- a problem which is right now being solved by the free market anyway, thanks to Apple's iTunes service.
But some people don't seem to understand free market solutions to problems that are, at their core, economic ones. When no mechanism existed for honest people to pay for music downloads, people were going to download music for free. The solution was to create a simple pay-per-download infrastructure, not to criminalize a third of the entire population.
That's right: if the DMCA were fully enforced, nearly 1/4th of the U.S. population would right now be in prison.
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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.
Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.
Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.
In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.
In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.
With a background in science and software technology, Adams is the original founder of the email newsletter technology company known as Arial Software. Using his technical experience combined with his love for natural health, Adams developed and deployed the content management system currently driving NaturalNews.com. He also engineered the high-level statistical algorithms that power SCIENCE.naturalnews.com, a massive research resource featuring over 10 million scientific studies.
Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.
Adams has also helped defend the rights of home gardeners and protect the medical freedom rights of parents. Adams is widely recognized to have made a remarkable global impact on issues like GMOs, vaccines, nutrition therapies, human consciousness.
In addition to his activism, Adams is an accomplished musician who has released over a dozen popular songs covering a variety of activism topics.
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