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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."

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  1. Re:The real costs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Steal it if you want to,

    Copyright infringement is *NOT STEALING*!!!!!!!

    How many times do we have to repeat it to you people?

    And why does the government need to spend *OUR* taxes into protecting the music industry?

    If they spend MY taxes into protecting them, well, that makes ONE MORE incentive to pirate: To take back my fucking money.

  2. Re:Easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is truly awe-inspiring to see the creativity used by the ethically challenged to justify their behavior.

  3. Re:Easy by eiapoce · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hello APOLOGIST. I suppose you blame the prosecution of simple possession. But possession exist in order to consume. I doubt someone keeps hash just to look at it....

    And when it gets consumed and abused it is SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN that it DAMAGES THE BRAIN. And I am talking just about hash wich is one of the lightest drugs out there.

    Of course I want to emphatize the fact that it is proven by scientists working on facts rather than some pot smoking retard glorifying the miracles of his marijuana crap on a personal website or blog.

    So when consumption it's done on a mass scale you get a society made up of amotivated morons with reduced mental capabilities. Isn't that more harmful than allowing piracy?

    Stop making stupid examples.

    Sources:
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/03/2264063.htm
    http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mental-health/dn14047-heavy-cannabis-use-linked-to-smaller-brain-parts.html
    http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/65/6/694
    http://media.uow.edu.au/news/UOW044791.html

  4. Re:750k Jobs Lost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it doesn't seem to matter to nigger obama