The EFF has submitted comments on the BPDG's recommendations (as manipulated by its co-chairs, apparently).
You can get the EFF's comments as a text,
PDF or Word document, but the BPDG recommendation is not available to for public view and you can check out the drafts for yourself.
The BPDG "process" has been rife with acrimony, arbitrariness and confusion, to an extent that cannot be fully ascribed to mere haste. EFF believes that the failings of the BPDG process stem directly from BPDG's efforts to cloak a inter-industry horse-trading exercise in the trappings of a public undertaking, with nominal participation from all "affected industries." In reality, the representatives were hand-picked by the conveners of the BPDG to minimize any dissent, as is evidenced by the high degree of similarity between the original proposal brought to the group by its conveners and the final report that the co-chairs unilaterally present herein as the group's findings.
Throughout the process, the absence of any formal charter or process afforded the co-chairs the opportunity to manipulate the rules of the group to suit their true purpose while maintaining its illusory openness, as when the scope of the group's discussions was summarily expanded to encompass all unauthorized redistribution of feature films, as opposed to unauthorized redistribution over the Internet.
Blogger Pro has finally implemented its RSS service!
My RSS feed can now be located at:
http://lisarein.blogspot.com/rss/lisarein.xml.
My mail has been out of commission for going on two days now. It's been intermittent, so I haven't been able to determine for sure that this was happening until today.
Email me at lisarein@fastmail.fm until further notice.
Please resend! I think I might have lost the last few days worth of mail...
