Hatch Pushes INDUCE Act

An anonymous reader writes "According to CNET the Senate is leaning strongly in favor of the INDUCE Act sponsored by Senator Orrin Hatch. It looks like the RIAA is making significant progress manipulating the marionette strings in Congress. MP3newswire.net states that if such laws were to pass, the record industry would become the new AMTRAK. 'Bloated and inefficient as always, but now a drain on taxpayers wallets and liberty as well'." Infoworld has a story as well. Reader CryptoEngineer writes: "Marybeth Peters, of the US Copyright Office testified recently before the Senate Judiciary committee in support of the INDUCE Act, which has been discussed here before. In summary, she thinks its not strong enough. Among other things, she proposed scrapping the Betamax decision, which makes it legal to timeshift TV shows with a VCR. Analysis here."

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Re:VOTE LIBERTARIAN

[Izago909]

Yeah. Saddam never invaded a non-hostile border state like **cough** Kuwait **cough**.

Kuwait is not the same as ALL of Europe. Not by mass, population or any other measure. Plenty of dictators have invaded non-hostile countries and the US didn't much care.

And why would it not compare? Are the Kurds, Shiias, and Arabs that Saddam killed somehow less important than the Jews that Hitler killed?

Easy answer, Hitler killed more people and took extra lengths to dehumanize them for years before the final solution. After the first war, Iraq's minority groups enjoyed many freedoms and were largely self-governing. We did not step in to stop Stalin's purges, or Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, or any of the other human rights violations that involved more people than Saddam's killings. Saving the Iraqi people was not a sales point until the WMD threat was revealed to be bullshit.

I think you have a basic misunderstanding of what a democracy is.

I know exactly what democracy is. It was born in ancient Greece where all native males had an equal voice in their governing. America is not a true democracy. As I said earlier, money is power. So either makes a few constitutional amendments to remove money from politics, or tax the hell out of the (usually greedy) ultra-rich who otherwise really don't give a shit about people born into and dying in poverty. I think one of our historical documents had the phrase "To provide for the well being". The truth is that most of the 1% don't earn their money, they are born into it. It's easy to not give a damn about others, everyone is born conservative. It takes heart and education care about fellow man. If the 1% are too greedy to realize the can live opulently and do good with the majority of their money then it should be governments role to step in and say you are a bad citizen.

Well, if you judge ones existence by how much money they have, then I guess it may be more meaningful. But to the rest of us who are not shallow money-grubbers, wealth really doesn't have much to do with how meaningful your existence is.

Again you completely ignored the point about the wealthy using their power (aka money) to make their say in government more meaningful than mine. We are supposed to be living in a country where everyone is equal, but in truth we are not.

Ah, so any failure in our foreign policy over the past 50 years should prevent us from defending ourselves today?

It should teach us that if we make such a big move (like invading a country for the first time in our history) to think it out first and base it on facts, not fear or intelligence warped to fit a predetermined agenda. And what are you talking defending? Defending us from Saddam? That's laughable. He was no more a threat to us than Castro. Have you read the 9/11 report saying that Iran, not Iraq, had a role in the attacks? Why are we not invading Iran right now? Iraq = no role... Iran = a role. Was the President bullshitting us to attack Iraq for ulterior motives? Because using his same Pre-invasion logic, we should be headed to Iran right now.

While you may be concerned about hurting our "allies" feelings, I'm more concerned about going after a culture and ideology that is intent on killing as many Americans as possible, as well as any nation that provides support or strength to this ideology.

So now we went to war over ideology? I thought it was because Saddam as attacking us every day with unseen forces or had WMD's that could reach us. I don't want to tell the families of fallen soldiers that we went to war over people talking shit about America. The truth is America was sold on the war based on a credible threat. As time progressed and that threat never materialized the story switched to liberating the Iraqi's. That a noble objective, but that's not how it was sold to us. Basically