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.

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[DLWormwood]

The end of the article mentions that part of the issue facing the Tech community is that we don't have financial contributors and lobby groups. What the article fails to realize is that many in the movement (at least here on /., anyway) oppose such activity as cheating and corruption.

Question: Which is more important, the end of such corruption in politics, or the assertion of digital rights?

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[Exotabe]

Question: Which is more important, the end of such corruption in politics, or the assertion of digital rights?

Answer: Both. There's never been as great a need to end corporate influence over government as there is today. With the advent of the net, we have more to lose as a society (as a world) than ever before.

That being said, don't stop asserting digital rights. Furthermore, if you're serious about stopping political corruption now instead of later, take a look at the Clean Election movement. Cut out the campaign contributions and you instantly relieve the stranglehold that corporations have over government.