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White House Lauds MN RIAA Win, Analysis of Victory
cnet-declan writes "The Bush administration's copyright czar says the RIAA's $222,000 recent jury verdict against a Minnesota woman shows copyright law is 'effective' and working as planned. C|Net's coverage has comments from Chris Israel, the U.S. Coordinator for International Intellectual Property Enforcement. Israel is formerly a senior Commerce Department official appointed by President Bush in July 2005 who previously worked for Time Warner's public policy arm (Warner Bros. Records is one of the plaintiffs in the RIAA case). The site also features an interview with Rep. Rick Boucher, no fan of the RIAA, on whether Congress will change the law, an analysis of why U.S. copyright law is broken, and four reasons why the RIAA won."
Ron Paul is actually a crazy right winger, not the salvation wingnut Slashdotters seem to think he is.
Let's face it. RIAA is doing a lot of the dirty work for the open source movement. IF, a judge were to rule, or the congress were to decide, that copyrights did not somehow apply to electronic documents, or that, users could freely copy a digital image without having to abide by any sort of license or royalty restriction, the OSS movement would be screwed because the GPL would become utterly meaningless. That is, if the little consumer can steal a song, then mega corporation can also violate the GPL, as both are based on copyrights. You could, when the dust all settles, be allowed to copy music legally, but then, you would also have to allow companies to grab all the GPL code, commercialize it, and do exactly the very thing that spawned the GPL to begin with.
This is my sig.
I've spied on the Daily Kos and other such blogs, so I have a well informed opinion on why they want Ron Paul elected.
They know none of the Democrat presidential candidates stand a chance against Rudy Giuliani or Fred Thompson come 08. It will be even worse for the Democrats should Hillary Clinton win the primaries for the 08 election. If you though ABB (Anybody But Bush) was nasty, wait till you hear and see in-action ABC (Anybody But Clinton).
So here we are, with liberals backing up Ron Paul to help him win the Republican Primaries and for only one fucking reason. ANTI WAR! That's it. Never mind the fact he goes against liberal ideology with is other views. It's the defeat of America to spite Bush that's the most important to them.
Life is not for the lazy.
And abortion is a death sentence.
For a blob of cells with brainpower comparable to your average earthworm.