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Singing Cow To Attack CBDTPA

Posted by michael on from the stampede dept.

karmawarrior writes "Gateway is launching an advertising campaign against Senator Holling's CBDTPA bill, which, apparently will include its cow mascot encouraging computer users to legally download MP3s and burn their own CDs." Wired also has a story; see Gateway's website for more, as Gateway takes a page from Apple's "Rip-Mix-Burn" playbook.

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  1. What's Your Beef? by Wintersmute · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because surely, there's nothing more persuasive that some good clean, bovine thinking.

    Why is it that Americans aren't persuaded by the voice of reason, but a talking hamburger really helps you see things straight?

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  2. Re:What ticks me off... by Danse · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    At least his definition of piracy showed most of the traits of what the term originally described. Only the location was different. That the term was perverted to mean something utterly incomparable to the original meaning is just... well.. perverse.

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