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Senator Seeks Restrictions to Music Laws, Fines
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.
Remember this -- the Republicans are, first and foremost, the party of big buisness. Anything that helps out large cooperations, despite the cost to the little guy, is in line with their ideals. There's a very good reason the RIAA president is a republican.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
This is the same senator who took over after the death of one of the left's greatest senators, Paul Wellstone. He's got people in Minnesota he needs to appease if he wants to get re-elected. Be assured, this is not typical GOP behavior; he is merely doing this for re-election, appeasing the liberal base.
It seems like on slashdot if you are a black muslim or a gay, you're the best thing in the world but if you are a white Christian you are a hate crime. Of course this is the way the rest of the world is too now, it's not just slashdot. Sigh, the reassurance we have is that prophecy has always said it would come to this.