Well I for one am glad to know that our leaderships priorities are straight. Criminalizing more teenagers copying music files online is a serious issue...such copyright infringment is a threat to the long term health and security of this nation. Far more significant than terrorism, energy costs, social security collapse and federl deficit spending, illeghal copying of DVD movies threatens to undermine the very fabric of western civilization as we know it.
Actually, it is. It ensures that an overwhelming number of Americans will eventually have SOMETHING they can be busted for, if they become too annoying to anyone in power
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We *want* them broken. You'd better get it straight That it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against– then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."-- Ayn Rand, _Atlas Shrugged , Ch. III, "White Blackmail"