Senator Seeks Restrictions to Music Laws, Fines

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Senator Seeks Restrictions to Music Laws, Fines

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday October 4, 2003 @03:50AM from the enough-is-enough dept.

Justen writes "Following this article from last month, Senator Norm Coleman (R.-Minn.) has announced that he will seek to limit federal penalties for copyright downloads and seek to restrict the subpoena power essentially granted to the industry through the DMCA. The RIAA responded by calling the current situation an 'epidemic.'" Sadly, there's no quantitative values for proposed reduced measures yet, but given the speed at which government moves it's reassuring to know the issue is this far along already.

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giant sucking sound by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-04 03:56 · Score: 2, Funny

dude's from minnesota.... he's obviously worried about losing all those lucrative file-sharing jobs to canada...
Huh by ProfKyne · 2003-10-04 03:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Senator Norm Coleman (R.-Minn.) has announced that he will seek to limit federal penalties for copyright downloads

I didn't realize there were federal penalties for downloading copyrights.

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"The RIAA responded by calling the current ... by bsDaemon · 2003-10-04 04:00 · Score: 3, Funny

...an epidemic." Yes, the Centre for Disease Control should help stem the tide of this subpeona plague.
Crap by Seraphim_72 · 2003-10-04 04:03 · Score: 2, Funny

It was so easy to hate Normy....now I might actually have to eat some crow with my Republican friends and think about giving him a vote next time ....grrr

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Re:Not always slow. by theunforgiv3n · 2003-10-04 04:09 · Score: 4, Funny

Better yet we should have 50 million people send custom mix cds to thier congressmen houses. Just imagine. 50 million cds with Britney spears and Nelly Hits of the hour. We could not only get the DMCA revoked but the bad aritists revoked too
Re:Party... by general_re · 2003-10-04 04:12 · Score: 5, Funny

And which team might that be?
My guess is that he's talking about the team that claims Senator Fritz Hollings (D-Disney), and therefore gave you this mess in the first place ;)

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they're not worth the effort by nFriedly · 2003-10-04 05:25 · Score: 3, Funny

People should stop calling them "the RIAA" because they aren't worth the time and effort it takes to type the word "the" or to hold down the shift key Instead just call them riaa.

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Norm Coleman Story :) by teamhasnoi · 2003-10-04 05:34 · Score: 2, Funny

Back when Norm was mayor of St. Paul I played a private Halloween show in NE Minneapolis for some design company. Norm happened to show up, and walked around pressing the flesh.
Being that this was a design company, everyone was in costume and very good ones at that. There were some Darth Mauls, some Ghostbuster guys with lighted 'Proton Packs' and of course several 'The Artist formerly Known as Prince'-es, Purple Rain era.
Norm was walking around and stopped at the refreshment table. I walked up to him, shook his hand and said, "That's the best Norm Coleman costume I've ever seen. Good job."
His smile faltered for a moment, then he replied, "uh...Thanks.."
First time I've ever seen a politician run out of stuff to say.
Interesting... by Solokron · 2003-10-04 11:50 · Score: 2, Funny

Following this article from last month, Senator Norm Coleman (R.-Minn.) has announced that he will seek to limit federal penalties for copyright downloads and seek to restrict the subpoena power essentially granted to the industry through the DMCA.

On another note, Gary Coleman has announced the he simlpy seeks attention.

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