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I manage this Web site and the following Web sites: Leslie (Blakeley) Adkins - my oldest daughter
Lori Ann Blakeley (June 20, 1985 - May 4, 2005) - my middle daughter
Evan Blakeley- my youngest child
We believe that recent changes to copyright law have gone too far by depriving citizens of rights that they had for almost two centuries. Our goal is simply to restore the balance of copyright law so that artists and creators can prosper while citizens have reasonable flexibility to use content in fair and legal ways.
That's why we're proposing a Consumer Technology Bill of Rights. The bill is a simple, positive assertion of the rights that consumers have had until recently. These include:
The right to "time-shift" media (recording a TV show and watching it later).
The right to "space-shift" media (copying a CD to a portable MP3 player).
The right to make backup copies of your media.
Does this mean that we support the theft of digital content? Absolutely not. Stealing music or movies is (and always has been) illegal. We do not support or condone theft. But copying and stealing are not necessarily the same thing. In certain situations, it is wrong to copy content; but in many cases, it is both legal and ethical to make unauthorized copies for fair uses. For example, recording a TV show with your VCR is unauthorized but perfectly legal.
DigitalConsumer.org is trying to restore the balance between citizens and copyright holders.