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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. Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    These men have just become my three favorite people to hate, along with our non-president Bush.

    Here's some addresses for you to do with as you please; normally I'd recommend writing them as I usually do, but their corrupt stupidity compels me to not care if you DDOS them, spam them, or whatever:

    Rep. Robert Wexler

    Rep. Adam Smith

    Rep. Tom Feeney

    Oh, and if you haven't already, try joining the EFF.

    Corporatism getting way out of hand. It's getting scary as hell if you ask me.

  2. Re:In Other News by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's information about Wexler's main contributors, and here's information about Smith's. It looks like Smith is the one getting the yacht, since his #1 contributor by industry is the computer industry. Which makes sense since he's the one who wrote the note attacking linux.

  3. Re:agent smith, er rep smith is a talking puppet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read here

    Money contributed from PAC of the corperation.
    (From the top contributors page)
    Microsoft Corp $32,200

    AOL Time Warner $5,000