Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar"

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bogus-stats dept.

TechDirt is reporting that those all-too-familiar "stats" surrounding the cost of piracy are being trotted out in an attempt to push through a new "Copyright Czar" position. "In urging President Bush to sign into law the ProIP bill, which would give him a copyright czar (something the Justice Department had said it doesn't want), the US Chamber of Commerce is claiming that 750,000 American jobs have been lost to piracy. Yet, it doesn't cite where that number comes from."

4 of 294 comments (clear)

  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Like recession? Then you'll love Obama!

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If that isn't off-topic, I don't know what is.

  2. 22nd! by Grendel_Prime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    TWENTY-SECOND POST BEEEEYOTCHES!!!!

    Why doesn't that have quite the same ring to it?

    P.S. I copyright that 22nd post thing!

  3. Free software depends on strong copyright law by flyingfsck · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A copyright Czar can only be good for the GPL and Free software.

    --
    Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!