[CLUE-Talk] dinner meeting of possible interest, other DMCA discussion

[Charles Oriez]

There are seats still available at the monthly AITP dinner meeting this 
Thursday.  This may be of interest to you.  Workshop deals with DMCA, 
intellectual property, etc.  Dinner speaker deals with NCIC, which has a 
host of its own problems.

details here: http://denveraitp.org/events/dinnerMeetApr2003.shtml

reservations here:  http://denveraitp.org/events/dinnerReservations.shtml


FYI - significant changes to HB1303, the Colorado DMCA bill.

http://www.leg.state.co.us/2003a/inetcbill.nsf/Frameset?ReadForm&viewname=3&resultformat=1

The bill still has problems, however, we at least fixed the problem with 
the prohibition on NAT.  It passed the Senate and the House then concurred 
with the Senate amendments yesterday.  It now awaits the governor's 
signature, which is going to happen.

Another interesting DMCA fight is brewing right now in Georgia, although 
the case seems to be argued on non DMCA grounds.  It deals with the 
revelation of serious security holes in Blackboard, an attempt by security 
experts to discuss them at the Interz0ne conference, and Blackboard's 
attempt to suppress the information.

Details of the security holes are here:
http://tinyurl.com/9m2f

You may want to grab a copy before the google cache gets overwritten

Discussion of the lawsuit is here: http://politechbot.com/

On the NCIC issue, a good discussion by EPIC is here 
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04613.html and here http://epic.org/  There is 
a link on the EPIC page to signing the petition urging the feds to insist 
on accurate information on the NCIC