Congressional Candidate Over P2P & DRM

Dark Nexus writes "Wired is running an article on a woman in North Carolina who has chosen to run against Howard Coble, who has come out against P2P networks. She said that she was sick of "individual rights sacrificed for big corporate politics" and is campaigning for digital rights to be preserved. A quote from her weblog: "I have put myself in the bullseye to stand up for our rights as free thinking citizens." It's about time someone stood up and tried to run against one of Hollywood's Congressmen on Hollywood's key issues." Update: 08/23 21:10 GMT by M : We're getting enough submissions of this story that we're probably going to post it on the front page.

Comments

Re:calling all NC Geeks!!

[Dark Nexus]

Don't just do that.

If you have the time, volunteer!

This is very much a grass roots candidate. She'll be running against VERY deep pockets since she's up against one of Hollywood's bigboys.

Getting the geeks out to vote isn't enough on it's own, she has to capture some of the popular vote. If she makes even a decent showing without winning, it might just send a message to Washington.

I don't expect she'll win. But if she does better than expected, it'll help get more people involved in future elections. Maybe at the next one, we'll see a larger number of candidates standing up against Hollywood.