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DOJ Opposes Extending DOJ Copyright Authority

Posted by samzenpus on from the not-our-problem dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The White House has opposed the bipartisan bill that would create copyright cops on the grounds that it would cause the Department of Justice to end up 'serving as pro bono lawyers for private copyright holders.' And while they do occasionally prosecute criminal copyright infringement, they have no intention of dabbling with civil cases because, 'taxpayer-supported department lawyers would pursue lawsuits for copyright holders, with monetary recovery going to industry.' At this rate, the discovery of winged suiformes would appear to be imminent."

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  1. "Immanent"? by Goaway · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Immanent"? If you're going to try and talk fancy, you really should make doubly sure you are actually spelling correctly.

    1. Re:"Immanent"? by Goaway · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well, not quite. "lose" and "loose" are both common words, and it's easy to see how people get confused about them. I doubt, however, that the submitter knew the word "immanent" and just confused it with "imminent". He just misspelled it, and by accident happened to spell another real and extremely uncommon word.

  2. Re:Yey! Victory! by Vancorps · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't understand this 700 billion dollar bail-out plan. That much money could just be given back to the American people and then they could pay off their mortgages instead of going into foreclosure.

    So it looks like you're right, they'll do something to counteract this brief moment of sanity.