Copyright Alliance Presses Presidential Candidates

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Not satisfied with the current copyright terms of life plus seventy years and huge financial liabilities for infringement, the Copyright Alliance is pressuring presidential candidates for stronger copyright laws. In particular, they want the candidates to promise to divert police resources to punish even non-commercial copyright infringement. After all, without copyright, what would become of the next Shakespeare, Michaelangelo, or da Vinci?"

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Re:ZOMG Lobbying!

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A vote for Ron Paul would effectively eliminate every social welfare program we have. If you value things like health care and an education system you'd be wise to find a different candidate. I would really like for the liberals to stop pretending to like Ron Paul just because he's antiwar. He hasn't started talking about private militias, corporate sponsored highways and the gold standard yet, but if he does I will officially count him as insane--along with all the other libertarians. Right now he's merely a hard right economics Republican who doesn't focus on social issues. Unchecked libertarianism would be just as ruinous for the country as the worst policies any neocon could dream up. As someone already said, Obama does not take PAC or lobbyist money, it's a major point of his campaign.

Re:Ron Paul won't bend to this nonsense!

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Ron Paul is a Ayn Rand-wannabe, a looney tune with the economic sense of a brain-damaged gerbil. The only thing more inept and dangerous than a demagogue like Ron Paul is the fucking retards that come on to /. trying to drum up support for this lunatic.

Go away, you stupid moron. Ron Rand ain't gonna get elected. He ain't gonna get nothing.