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Congressional Anti-Piracy Caucus Formed

Posted by timothy on from the battle-lines dept.

questionlp writes "News.com reports that three members from the House of Reps has formed a caucus that aims to stop piracy and make for stronger IP laws. One of the members of the caucus: helped author a note last fall to 74 fellow Democrats assailing the Linux open-source operating system's GNU General Public License as a threat to America's 'innovation and security.'"

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  1. agent smith, er rep smith is a talking puppet by r3dfiv3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    i think its funny how a rep from wash, whose district includes ms headquarters, comes out in favor of ip laws and against linux. i wonder how much that cost balmer.