LGF reader Mike P. draws my attention to this article on a Congressional attempt to greatly expand the powers of the already highly invasive, Big Brother-like Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Congress readies broad new digital copyright bill. link: 62 comments
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frankp_63 4/24/2006 10:42AM PDT |
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It's offensive for Gonzalez to play a terrorism angle and say this will deter organized piracy gangs who fund terrorist entities. That's horsesh#t. I support this administration's war effort, but other times I really feel it has its collective head up its ass. The same week it entertains the Chinese president, who oversees the largest piracy enterprises on the planet, it introduces this crap to go after Amercian citizens who want to burn a copy of software for themselves. These companies have been crying the same game since blank cassettes came out. I can decide what's more urgent: keeping technology out of the hands of terrorists or off the hands of brain-dead politicans. |
