[nylug-talk] [Fwd: [IP] CopyRight Office asks about IE]

[Michael K Dolan]

Maybe we can craft a single, party line response to mail in... Has anyone 
seen a response yet that we can use? A few points I consider important 
that could be made:

1) IE doesn't support web standards and MS has already declared IE 7 won't 
either
2) IE only runs on Windows PCs and is not standard on Apple's Mac.
3) Linux and Mac desktops are increasing market share (37% growth YoY for 
Linux desktops? ..can't remember latest #) 
4) IE has already been the subject of anti-trust regulation 
5) Today there are viable alternatives such as Mozilla's Firefox, Apple's 
Safari, and Opera which all support published, agreed upon standards that 
Microsoft participates equally in setting.
6) Large enterprises and homes users are switching away from Microsoft IE. 
IBM for instance makes Firefox available for its 330,000 employees. 1 out 
of 10 people use Firefox, a greater ratio use standards based browsers.
7) Security issues with spyware, activex exploitation, rootkits, and other 
IE targeted security exploitations may compromise the security and privacy 
required by the copyright office. 
8) Without an alternative browser option, there will be a single point of 
failure with IE. Security exploits or security patches could compromise or 
disrupt the copyright submission process.





Michael K Dolan/Somers/IBM at IBMUS 
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Mail in your response. I know lawyers (am one myself) and they are 
generally incompetent technically (save a very few) and probably don't 
understand the implications of this. Lawyers understand a jury and public 
opinion so flood them with responses. I doubt there will be many responses 

supporting this so it would be nice to flood them with valid reasons this 
is not a good idea. Get the word out and actually mail in a response. Mine 

will be in the mail tonight.





Ron Guerin <ron at vnetworx.net> 
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Your government producing its primary product yet again: Incompetence
and counter-productive initiatives.

If this goes through, only the browser which was the subject of an
anti-trust conviction will be able to be used to pre-register
copyrights.

- Ron

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-------- Original Message --------

From: Robert Cannon <rcannon100 at yahoo.com>
Date: August 11, 2005 3:38:33 PM EDT
To: dave at farber.net
Subject: CopyRight Office asks about IE


COPYRIGHT OFFICE SEEKS INFORMATION ON WEB BROWSER USE
FOR PREREGISTRATION (70 FR 44878)

  The Copyright Office is seeking information on
whether and why persons filing the electronic-only
preregistration form  prescribed by the Office will
experience difficulties or  will choose not to
preregister an eligible unpublished work  if it is
necessary to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web
browser (version 5.1 or higher) to do so. Comments are
due  by August 22, 2005. Reply comments are due by
September 7,  2005.  For further information, go to
the Copyright Office website  at
http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2005/70fr44878.html


> http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2005/70fr44878.html
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