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March 27, 2002 Promote Consumer Use of Broadband and Prevent Digital Piracy! Dear Colleague I invite you to join me in supporting legislation that would encourage demand for broadband Internet service and protect creative enterprise from the threat of digital piracy. The promise of the Internet has not been fully met. While consumers have unprecedented access to information resources on the web, there is still a demand for more. Congress has recently debated ways to better serve our constituents by improving access to broadband Internet service, yet the demand for this technology is severely lacking. This is simply because consumers...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Sen. Fritz Hollings has fired the first shot in the next legal battle over Internet piracy.</p> <p>The Democratic senator from South Carolina finally has introduced his copy protection legislation, ending over six months of anticipation and sharpening what has become a heated debate between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON -- Sen. Fritz Hollings has fired the first shot in the next legal battle over Internet piracy.</p> <p>The Democratic senator from South Carolina finally has introduced his copy protection legislation, ending over six months of anticipation and sharpening what has become a heated debate between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.</p>

Numerous articles on RedHat, Slash-Dot, and similar geek sites tell of a major kind of a $#!T storm called SSSCA brewing. There is nothing sadder than seeing the democrap party walking around with a kick-me sign on it and nobody lining up to kick it. The whole world ought to be lining up to kick the dems over SSSCA; what they're talking about would be a nightmare of collosal proportions; the first thing I'd want to do would be to go out and immediately purshase several thousand dollars worth of present tech disk drives and CDROM drives. Imagine a black...