] In the wake of a firestorm of outrage from Tennessee
] techies, the controversial telecommunications theft
] legislation has been heavily amended, and its backers
] finally agreed late last week to postpone action to give
] interested parties time for further debate. But
] meanwhile, members of the local technological community
] are predicting all kinds of digital doomsdays if the bill
] becomes law. They regard it as a stealth attack on their
] technological freedom by big entertainment and big cable,
] the industries that wrote and heavily lobbied the
] Tennessee bill and have pushed for similar laws across
] the nation.

] "As originally worded, the bill was so broad and vague
] that every citizen who legally used a communications
] service would've been in violation of the law," says
] Scott Kozicki, chairman of the Tennessee Digital Freedom
] Network (www.tndf.net), an ad hoc group formed to fight
] the legislation.

Scott is a MemeStreams user:

http://www.memestreams.net/users/flynn23/