“I’m not ready to dump the anticircumvention (of the DMCA),” Peters said in response to a question from an audience member who suggested as much. “I think that’s a really important part of our copyright owners’ quiver of arrows to defend themselves.”
Peters told summit attendees that at first she thought it was “stupid” to put the Copyright Office in the position of deciding whether certain locked content was problematic, but she eventually came around.
“It does bring attention to certain activities that maybe aren’t so great,” said the self-proclaimed “Luddite,” who confessed she doesn’t even have a computer at home. “In hindsight, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.”
Are you sure she didn’t copyright that photo?
So, the head of the Copyright office does have a computer at home and our Sec. of Defense doesn’t use email . . . . . nice to see where we are today.
Don’t forget that fearless leader is proud to have gotten maybe a B in economics.
Hmm. And then there’s brownie. And then there’s Miers.
I guess I spend a lot of time thinking of the intellectual accomplishments of our elected officials. As a contrast I would add that Ahmadinejad has a Ph.D.
There is hope George W was using ” The Google”
may be this will filter down to these other people in charge of important stuff .
Like the rest of the Bush administration, that Peters is doing a heckuva job.
This is depressing. Who hired her? Fire that ass, and her.
This reminds me of two things:
1. the FCC commissioner that didn’t own a television set and still owned a rotary phone
2. a celibate Pope making rules for Catholics on birth control
If you don’t play the game, you shouldn’t be able to make the rules!
It sure is tough typing these comments on our EBCDIC Abacus/360 with 300 baud acoustic coupled modem and thermal paper terminal.
Marybeth Peters
A government official
In America
In the year 2007
Who does not even own a computer
and says it like it’s a good thing
Who sez our gov’t is out of touch with the people they represent?
It’s the copyright office, not the patent office.
I don’t think her not owning a computer is a big deal, really.
It looks like she doesn’t own any exercise equipment either.
This is the sort of person that the recording industry still cranks out vinyl LPs for. And probably delivers them free of charge. God forbid that she should have to cough up any of her precious income for music CDs. She probably still has a monophonic record player. After all, who needs two channels when one sounds just as good?
She’s held that position since 1994 and she’s worked at the copyright office for 40 years.
I’m sure when she first held the position she has now, copyright was about books, software and fair use.
It is corporate america which has sought to misuse copyright law to protect printer cartridges and other proprietary schemes.
We are probably better off that is a “luddite” is in that office. Imagine the look on her face when some large company tries to sell her on something that makes no sense to no one.
Maybe we need someone who doesn’t use any Microsoft products making decisions on the interpretation of the application of copyright law đ
12. “I donât think her not owning a computer is a big deal, really.”
God, read the title. If she has no experience using computers, by what basis can she judge the fairness or the effectiveness of the DMCA?! She’s clueless about it and obviously the copyright industry is taking advantage of that.
15- The scary flip side of that is that, not knowing any better, she will believe whatever the lobbyist tells her.
“The DMCA is good and protects the publics interest”
“Net Neutrality is dirty dirty Communism”
“Copyright should never expire. Fair use is evil. Please, wont you think of Mickey?”
Ignorance is never preferable to experience / knowledge.
@ #16 “Sheâs clueless about it and obviously the copyright industry is taking advantage of that.”
That’s what you say. Show me proof.
@ #17 “she will believe whatever the lobbyist tells her.”
Or maybe be less likely to believe them and/or more skeptical? You don’t know if this is true.
My point is that no one in this thread to my knowledge knows anything about this lady and a yet with a single fact seem to extrapolate all sorts of information about this woman’s intelligence when — in fact — you do not know anything about her.
>>If she has no experience using computers, by what basis can
>>she judge the fairness or the effectiveness of the DMCA?!
Who ever said she has “no experience using computers”, Kimo Sabe? She said she DOES NOT HAVE ONE AT HOME. Oh, boo hoo! So she doesn’t spend all of her free time watching YouTube videos, posting to blogs, and looking at internet porn. STRING HER UP!
Having seen enough geeked out losers bogged down with bluetooth earsets, cell phones, blackberries, and laptops to last me a lifetime, it’s kind of refreshing to see somebody whose entire life does not begin and end with tricked-out, bleeding-edge technocrap from work. Do you supposed Colin Powell plays war games in his living room for entertainment? Her opinions on DMCA may not be completely in sync with mine, but bfd. At least she’s not Dumbya or Heart Attack Cheney.
#15 & 18, hmeyers.
I agree. She has shown a dedication to fairness and the law. That is all we should ask.
Just because she doesn’t own a computer at home, doesn’t mean she doesn’t use one at work or take a work issued laptop home with her. After all, not every truck driver has a truck at home.
I can’t believe how you’re promoting the value of proud ignorance.
She indicts her self with her own words. She waves the banner for a poorly written law that adversely affects computer users and neuters fair use. Then she brags about how shes a “Luddite” and doesn’t have a computer.
How can she be mindful of the impact this law, and her office has if she’s gleefully ignorant of the possible issues?
#14 – Glenn E
“This is the sort of person that the recording industry still cranks out vinyl LPs for.”
Nothing like shooting your ignorant mouth off about something you know nothing about. It would appear she knows more about computers than you do about audio.
People don’t continue to listen to vinyl because they’re “afraid of technology” – modern turntables are aerospace-level high tech, idiot.
LPs are preferred by music connoisseurs who embrace technology, but are not sheeple like you, brainwashed into thinking that “digital” automatically means “superior”, as the consumer electronics industry would have you believe, to their continued profit.
Don’t let your typically American lack of actual knowledge prevent you from arrogantly offering up a so-called “opinion”, chum…
Go buy a digital toothbrush – your friends at the CEA say they’re “better” than those ‘analog’ ones that your Luddite parents used.
Sucker. Sheeple.
#15 – hmeyers
“Maybe we need someone who doesnât use any Microsoft products making decisions on the interpretation of the application of copyright law”
You got that right. Excellent point. Amen.
Not owning a computer isn’t the same as not knowing computers. John Dvorak has written numerous articles about how he doesn’t use technology x or y, including that cell phones are a waste. People keep treating things in life as indispensable when they really aren’t. WIfi, cable tv, broadcast tv , dvd, computers, internet access, and even telephones are not essential.
#11 – Who sez our govât is out of touch with the people they represent?
Republicans.
#15 – We are probably better off that is a âludditeâ is in that office. Imagine the look on her face when some large company tries to sell her on something that makes no sense to no one.
I do imagine the look on her plain doughy little face… and that’s why I am certain that we are worse off, not better as you propose, that she’s a Luddite.
We need a Lawrence Lessig caliber mind in that office… Not some backward, near Amish, frump with the demeanor of a Sunday School teacher.
#18 – …you do not know anything about her.
We know she doesn’t own a computer.
In the 21st Century that is one of the things that should automatically disqualify you from a position of authority in a federal office.
If she wants to be a County Commissioner in rural West Virginia, tell her to have at it…
Even county commissioners in rural West Virginia dress better than that. Still no computers, though. đ
>>I do imagine the look on her plain doughy little faceâŚ
Yeah! Let’s get Jessica Simpson or Britney in there. We don’t need no fucking plain doughy faces in the Copyright Office. If we don’t appoint BIG TITS and pancake makeup to the Copyright Office, the DCMA apologists win! And the bitch probably hasn’t even seen the “Obama Girl” video on YouTube. wtf is wrong with tihs country??
#29 – You should drink decaf.