[mythtv-users] Unlocking Technologies Act

[Raymond Wagner]

From: Brian J. Murrell
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 4:35 PM
> 
> If only the links were not broken across multiple lines.  If you must
> post in a mail client that doesn't preserve long links, could you
> URL-shorten it?

The only way to "preserve long links" is to send the email as HTML, (which
they were), which leaves it up to the email client to handle it properly.
Otherwise, plain text email is hard limited to 79 characters. URL shorteners
serve no purpose but to mask the destination of the link.

In any case, the gist of the bill is to castrate the DMCA anti-circumvention
clause, and make it only illegal if the intent of circumvention is to allow
illegal redistribution of the protected content.