Well, I didn't think the Bush administration could get any worse.
I was wrong.
People who voted for "Rep. Lamar Smith" might want to take a closer look next time around.
It's worse than most are seeing too. This is wag the dog for a higher agenda mentioned briefly in this article. Here is the Bush Administrations reason besides typical big business shilling.
During a speech in November, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endorsed the idea and said at the time that he would send Congress draft legislation. Such changes are necessary because new technology is "encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual-property theft," Gonzales said, adding that proceeds from the illicit businesses are used, "quite frankly, to fund terrorism activities."
I've got a better idea. Why doesn't Gonzales simply draft legislation making it a federal law that we each day report to a federal life management department and give them account of all we have read, said, seen, done, what sites we surf {up till this one his most recent request} and the last time we had a BM.
This administration tops them all on collecting personal info about private citizens. It's starting to even put the Clinton to shame in that respect. They took FBI files on the elected. Bush & company is creating them on us. Get everyone mad about the copyright law while the intended reason is hidden in one paragraph. Add this to the medical file data bank on us and the new ISP logs he wants as well.
From the article: It also represents a political setback for critics of expanding copyright law, who have been backing federal legislation that veers in the opposite direction and permits bypassing copy protection for "fair use" purposes. That bill--introduced in 2002 by Rep. Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat--has been bottled up in a subcommittee ever since.
Boy now there's a good one. A DEM to the right of the GOP on fair use laws. I buy the blasted CD I should be able to make copy's for private use and not have to carry a CD case around so they don't get stolen. And some thought Ashcroft was too aggressive? Gonzales it appears respects no ones rights on much of anything.