President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "President Bush has signed the EIPRA (AKA the PRO-IP Act) and created a cabinet-level post of 'Copyright Czar,' on par with the current 'Drug Czar,' in spite of prior misgivings about the bill. They did at least get rid of provisions that would have had the DOJ take over the RIAA's unpopular litigation campaign. Still, the final legislation (PDF) creates new classes of felony criminal copyright infringement, adds civil forfeiture provisions that incorporate by reference parts of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, and directs the Copyright Czar to lobby foreign governments to adopt stronger IP laws. At this point, our best hope would appear to be to hope that someone sensible like Laurence Lessig or William Patry gets appointed."

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Fist Prose

[sexconker]

Fist Prose.

Also, this seriously sucks.
What countries should I consider moving to?

Re:Fist Prose

[Anonymous Coward]

No it's just that GW Bush wants to be the last president in history.

The USA will implode in upon it's self Dec 31'st. We will be a giant swirling sink hole between Canada and Mexico.

That's not certain yet.

Obama could still lose.

Re:Fist Prose

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, they're still in charge.

It's just that now they are called oligarchs, and the old KGB runs everything in collusion with the Maffiya.

The Bolshevik Jews have merely handed power over to their friends the criminal Jews, that's all.

Re:Fist Prose

[joshtheitguy]

I've done some research and it appears that out of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John McCain and Sarah Palin none of them bothered to vote on it. Though it did pass overwhelmingly on both the Democratic and Republican sides.

It is a sad day for the freedom of information.

USA + Bush = FAIL

[Macfox]

Your government is out of control. Perfect timing. This will get zero media attention.

*Middle Finger*

[Dragonshed]

Damn I hate my government so much.

Mission accomlished

[Anonymous Coward]

Another mission accomplished by the wise and all knowing bush. Man i wish my country could have such an incompetent retard running it. O wait canada has steven harper who is Bush jr pretty much. Just when you thought it was unpossible for them to screw up the USA anymore HE DOES IT AGAIN!

I really hope the USA votes(or just have the supreme court spit in face of voters again and just elect whoever they feel even if the other person got well over 500k more votes) Mcain in so he can die in his first year and Palin can run the USA into complete ruin so that other nations learn that just cause the corrupt states of America do something does not mean they should just blindly follow what they do. After all they are not even a real democracy its a 2 party system or retarded n worthless tards who could not lead their way out of a paper bag let alone make good choices.

Will there even be an election?

[twitter]

GWB has already threatened Congress with martial law over the market crash. He may well be the last president as we know the office. It's treason.

Re:Will there even be an election?

[MightyYar]

Look, I usually don't direct negative comments to you because you catch flack from a whole cadre of anti-twitter people on here...

But my God, man... are you this delusional? Stick to pissing off MS fanboys.

LOL @ twitter

[Anonymous Coward]

I am supprised twitter that you haven't started refering to America as "U$"

Re:LOL @ twitter

[GigaplexNZ]

We really need a "-1, twitter" moderation...