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Congress Pressures DoJ With PIRATE Part II
Anonymous Pirate writes "Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) have re-introduced the 'PIRATE Act' (pdf) to Congress. According to Ars Technica, the purpose of this act is to get the DoJ to go after individual copyright infringers. It would allow the Department of Justice to bring civil lawsuits instead of criminal ones so that they would be able to prosecute copyright infringers with only a minimal burden of proof, rather than the heavier burden required for criminal prosecution." Took a long time to do a sequel; we first talked about this proposal quite some time ago.
We really need to spend money on this. There is no way that improving our deficit or infrastructure would be a smarter move. I mean, a couple of ignorant kids from redneck/inner city USA downloading some of the absolute crap that passes for music these days is clearly our priority number one. Let's not worry about going after the corporate monopolies that are never going to give us solid, reliable electric cars. Let's skip the illegally wire tapping and bandwidth throttling telcos. Let's not get to the bottom of the JFK thing, or how the twin towers fell, or back to the moon. Let's spend all of our money on locking up teenagers with no taste in music. BRILLIANT!
Is there no American willing to beat these idiots with the clue stick? I've got a good right arm, I'll take a couple of swings, get me a ticket to Washington....
Attached is a photo of my proposed "Clue Stick":
http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11509025/Sledge_Hammer_With_Wooden_Handle.jpg
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