{"id":1816,"date":"2007-01-14T15:24:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2007-01-14T15:24:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T20:24:36","slug":"perform-double-plus-ungood-for-radio-and-netio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/perform-double-plus-ungood-for-radio-and-netio\/","title":{"rendered":"PERFORM &#8211; Double Plus Ungood for Radio and Netio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/01\/13\/0755256\">SlashDot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/01\/13\/stop_the_perform_act.html\">Boingboing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/005072.php\">EFF<\/a> all alert us of the pending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/004587.php\">PERFORM (&#8220;Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music&#8221;)<\/a> [EFF Summary with links to bill and links for action]. Like PATRIOT, the bills would take rights from citizens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/01\/13\/0755256\">JAFSlashdotter explains briefly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If you enjoy MP3 or OGG streams of internet radio, it&#8217;s time to pay attention. This week U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander, Joseph Biden, Dianne Feinstein, and Lindsey Graham decided to reintroduce the &#8216;Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music (PERFORM) Act&#8217;. An Ars Technica article explains that PERFORM would <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070112-8609.html\">restrict our rights to make non-commercial recordings<\/a> under the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, and require satellite and internet broadcasters to use &#8216;technology to prevent music theft&#8217;. That means goodbye to your favorite streaming audio formats, hello DRM. The EFF <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/004587.php\">said pretty much the same<\/a> when this bill last reared its ugly head in April of 2006. It&#8217;s too soon to get the text of this year&#8217;s version (S.256) online, but it likely to resemble last year&#8217;s S.2644, which is available through <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d109:S.2644:\">Thomas<\/a><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SlashDot, Boingboing and EFF all alert us of the pending PERFORM (&#8220;Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music&#8221;) [EFF Summary with links to bill and links for action]. Like PATRIOT, the bills would take rights from citizens. JAFSlashdotter explains briefly: &#8220;If you enjoy MP3 or OGG streams of internet radio, it&#8217;s time to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}