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Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the EIPA (the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008), which would create copyright cops. And these cops would take over the RIAA's War on Sharing by filing civil lawsuits and using civil forfeiture laws to take any and all computers engaged in infringement. Worse, they would even seize computers (such as servers or database farms) that house the data of innocent people, and these people would not have any right to get their data back. At best the 'virtual bystanders' who happened to have data on a computer used for infringement could get a protective order saying that no one should go rummaging through their stuff. Perhaps the only good thing in the bill is that they've excluded DMCA circumvention from the list of grounds for seizure. So while the Senators believe this is needed to combat foreign copyright infringement cartels, it's entirely likely that innocent people will be harmed by this law."
If you believe the Republicans will try to filibuster this bill, you're living in fairy land.
If they were in fact natural rights, it would not have been necessary to enshrine them in law.
Your second and third sentences are irrelevant as one of the first 10 amendments spells out exactly that.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
So keep complaining about the US not being capitalistic enough, you are only going to increase the disparity between rich and poor (but hey, what do I care).
To grandparent:
What economic system do you prefer to capitalism?
I'd go with libralsocialism...