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Senate Majority Leader Takes On File Sharing
An anonymous reader writes "Colleges are up in arms — and the entertainment industry is ecstatic — over Sen. Harry Reid's plan to crack down on file sharing by students. Floor votes could be imminent." A commenter on the post said, "Unfortunately we are likely to see neither sense nor principle from the Democrats on this issue, as Hollywood is their biggest cash machine."
Funny, Wall Street Journal reports Dems have raised 100 Million more then Republicans: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB11851538260 9874577.html?mod=blog/ . That tells me your numbers are not giving us all the information on donations. Isn't that like failing to tell folks the amount of money Speak Of the House's husband is making of the Iraq War while blaming Bush?
Dammy
"Hollywood is the main source of cash for Democrats" is just another legend in the rich and bizarre mythology of conservatism, and as such it is typically puerile and easily refuted.
LOL. Somebody bothered not only to think about it, but research the subject for himself? That's the problem with the world today -- too many of you free-thinkers running around disagreeing with everyone and spouting off facts. You must be a real lonely guy without a group to belong to.
Seriously, though, good for you. Reminds me of the the liberal media meme. Didn't occur to anyone that the most of the major networks are owned and operated by a bunch of rich white guys with too much money that vote Republican. Or that the news divisions heads and most of the anchors fall into the same group.
As for Hollywood, it's a vocal crowd consisting of people with easy access to free publicity living in a state that traditionally leans left of center. It's worth pointing, however, that the most vocal individuals do donate heavily to the Democratic party. Easy target at any rate. A hundred years ago it wasn't Hollywood, but those darned New Yorkers. I guess when you live in middle America, it's inevitable that you feel surrounded.
How can your reading comprehension be so poor? Oh yeah, the USA public school system.
The story has nothing to do with aristocracy. The point of it is, no matter which group you vote in, you get the same thing. As in, Republicans == Democrats. Neither party cares about the citizens, they only care about their rich donors and buddies.
Do something smart, _NEVER_ vote for a Republican or Democrat.
the founding fathers ingrained slavery in the constitution. protecting the rights of the minority, ha!
the truth is, there is no such thing as the tyranny of the majority. the majority's desires aren't so exclusive and punishing to the minority as you and others would believe. it's the demagogues and their interests that hurt minority interests. and so the checks and balances you talk about are valuable for containing the damage the demagogues do if and when they get elected into positions of power
it's about containing the tyranny of demogogues. the majority are and always have been blameless on the issue of tyrannical abuses of the minority interests
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
It is sickening to me that the interests of corporations are held above the will of the citizens. Oh wait, we aren't citizens, we are consumers.
if you still work with the system, then stop trashing it with your words
you say it's very very broken. ok. but then you vote and write letters. well that doesn't make any sense if you believe it's so broken. so if you still see hope, then you need to update your rhetoric, because what you say doesn't match what you do
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
First do something about all the illegal Mexicans. Then you can do something about illegal file sharing. Stop being bought and fix the damn broken country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!