Okay, it's not. The DMCA needs to go AND we need net neutrality guaranteed.
"The bill squarely addresses the issue of the enormous market power of the telephone and cable companies as the providers of 98 percent of the broadband service in the country," said Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge. "The bill restores the principle of nondiscrimination that allowed the Internet to flourish in the dial-up era, making certain that the same freedom and innovation will flourish in the broadband era without burdensome regulation."
Lawmakers Introduce New Net Neutrality Bill
By GRANT GROSS, IDG News Service\Washington Bureau, IDG
Two Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would subject broadband providers to antitrust violations if they block or slow Internet traffic.
Representative John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has sponsored the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act along with Representative Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from the Silicon Valley area of California.
The legislation requires Internet service providers to interconnect with the facilities of other network providers on a reasonable and nondiscriminatory basis. It also requires them to operate their networks in a reasonable and nondiscriminatory manner so that all content, applications and services are treated the same and have an equal opportunity to reach consumers.
Any ISPs that do not follow these net neutrality rules would be subject to antitrust enforcement.
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well, since I brought up the
well, since I brought up the DMCA boogy-man in a previous comment, I'm going to get more specific and say we need to get the anti-reverse engineering provisions out of the DMCA (and somehow stop WIPO from spreading that provision, too).
The good part of the DMCA--ISPs having safe-harbor from alleged copyright/libel/etc for hosted content--is under attack from some court cases and needs to be strengthened.