{"id":802,"date":"2006-05-01T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/too-many-reasons-to-write-to-congress\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:25:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:25:02","slug":"too-many-reasons-to-write-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/too-many-reasons-to-write-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Too many reasons to write to congress lately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feinstein.senate.gov\/email.html\">Dear Honorable Senator Feinstein<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>  I am writing to oppose the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/archives\/004587.php\">PERFORM Act<\/a>.  As you know, this act would outlaw MP3 streaming, as the MP3 file format contains no DRM.  I am a musician and composer.  I prefer mp3s for many reasons, including the universal level of access.  MP3 players are available for every operating system, free of charge.  When I stream an mp3, I know that I&#8217;m reaching the largest possible audience.  DRM-laden streams can never possibly achieve the same level of market penetration.  By their very nature, DRMs must be secret and proprietary.  That means that a private company has to write them, which they do for windows and then possibly Macintosh as an afterthought.  Linux is supported even less often.  Should I choose to stream via a DRM-burdened format, I have to pay a third party company and in the end, I reach fewer people.  This doesn&#8217;t help me as an artist.  It doesn&#8217;t help me as a fan.  <\/p>\n<p>We already have copyright laws.  Webcasters already pay royalties.  From a practical standpoint, I know how to capture and record DRM stream as easily as a non-DRM stream.  This law is unneeded and unnecessary and doesn&#8217;t solve any problems.  It does, however, create problems for webcasters and listeners, especially ones on older systems or using linux.<\/p>\n<p>  Please withdraw the PERFORM Act.<\/p>\n<p>  Sincerely,<br \/>\n  Celeste Hutchins<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/DRM\" rel=\"tag\">DRM<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/PERFORM\" rel=\"tag\">PERFORM<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Celesteh\" rel=\"tag\">Celesteh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Honorable Senator Feinstein, I am writing to oppose the PERFORM Act. As you know, this act would outlaw MP3 streaming, as the MP3 file format contains no DRM. I am a musician and composer. I prefer mp3s for many reasons, including the universal level of access. MP3 players are available for every operating system, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/too-many-reasons-to-write-to-congress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too many reasons to write to congress lately<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}