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Hardball Tactics For The Geek Lobby
sfjoe writes: "The San Francisco Chronicle has this story on how to effectively make the point about online freedom of speech. In a nutshell, until a legislator gets slapped around (electorally-speaking) for kowtowing to the narrow corporate interests, nobody in Congress will take online civil liberties seriously. On the other hand if, for example, Senator Disney gets his balls whacked (electorally-speaking), monstrosities like the DMCA will start getting bottled up in congressional committees. The NRA has been doing this for years and it works."
yeah, i can see it now... the courts will become as backlogged as the patent system. There will be infrengments that lose the media they are infrenging on, before they can make it into court, and the only people that will be makeing money off of this law (as with all laws) are the phat lawyers that will take everybodies money.