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Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Obama Administration's Department of Justice, with former RIAA lawyers occupying the 2nd and 3rd highest positions in the department, has shown its colors, intervening on behalf of the RIAA in the case against a Boston University graduate student, SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, accused of file sharing when he was 17 years old. Its oversized, 39-page brief (PDF) relies upon a United States Supreme Court decision from 1919 which upheld a statutory damages award, in a case involving overpriced railway tickets, equal to 116 times the actual damages sustained, and a 2007 Circuit Court decision which held that the 1919 decision — rather than the Supreme Court's more recent decisions involving punitive damages — was applicable to an award against a Karaoke CD distributor for 44 times the actual damages. Of course none of the cited cases dealt with the ratios sought by the RIAA: 2,100 to 425,000 times the actual damages for an MP3 file. Interestingly, the Government brief asked the Judge not to rule on the issue at this time, but to wait until after a trial. Also interestingly, although the brief sought to rebut, one by one, each argument that had been made by the defendant in his brief, it totally ignored all of the authorities and arguments that had been made by the Free Software Foundation in its brief. Commentators had been fearing that the Obama/Biden administration would be tools of the RIAA; does this filing confirm those fears?"
He aint no nigga, that mofo is half whitey... that there is the fucking problem. If he was full coon, like his black asshole wife then you could call him nigga - until then you is racist mofo.
The only place where people will gleefully ignore the fact that we torture innocent people in secret prisons without a trial, but froth at the mouth at the idea that you can be sued for copyright infringement.
Yes, clearly, THIS is the biggest issue of the year. Forget the economy, and health care, and two wars, and terrorism, and a weak government in the nuclear-armed Pakistan, and global warming, and the torture of people who never even received a trial. This issue, right here, is what matters. Obama was elected because "big media" bought the election, and now he's gonna come down hard on all us poor innocents.
I think it may be time to invest in Reynold's Wrap.
He has put out the word that he wants a dialogue with Iran.
Yay were talking with a leader who alows the DEATH PENALTY on NINE YEAR OLD GIRLS and FIFTEEN YEAR OLD BOYS. --- That was total sarcasm. So lets be friends with Iran and talk to them so we can get are damn oil. Instead of stopping these blatant human rights issues. I must say Obama is so much better then Bush, not. Wake Up!!
He made changes with Guantanamo.
Ok he this is ok.
He's made changes in the tax system - albeit not enough for my tastes.
What steal from the rich and give to the poor. So lets take money from those who work and hire people (we kinda need jobs!) so they can't hire more people and give it to those who don't good job Obama!!!
He's dealing with one of the worst economies in decades.
Yes yes that is true so what he is going to stop capitalism from working and bailout those who took risks. Oh and I get to pay for it thanks.
It looks like we're finally getting out of Iraq and maybe things in Afghanistan will improve too
What so we can get are oil but let dictators who don't exactly see eye to eye with us in power. Yay!!!
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Maybe he is a tool of the RIAA. I don't know, but considering the other shit happening in this World, the RIAA and their actions are not exactly high on people's list.
Yes their are bigger things but someone needs to tell the RIAA that money isn't everything!!
I'm all for third parties myself - I voted for Barr - but I think Obama is getting much of his changes through. It's just not the "working in the system peaceful revolution" that I think many folks expected.
I couldn't vote I just missed it by about a month :(. Yet I'll be paying taxes so that AIG can take risks they shouldn't have boy I'm glad we have Obama he going to fix everything. --- Again Sarcasm.
Obama: "Gotta protect Big Business, because Big Business IS the economy! If Big Business can't make tons of money off the backs of the clueless, the economy would cease to exist, the world as we (my buddies and I) know it would come to an end, the universe would implode, and the Rapture will begin!"
The thing about libertarians is that Ron Paul sucks.
This is my sig.
The Obama campaign was helped (and made "hip") by Hollywood & Co.
What did you expect? You didn't get a new kind of leader, you just got your average Chicago politician in the White House, that's all.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
And he's not pushing a mop or carrying around a silver serving tray! How the hell did that happen? What's next? Gay niggers in outer space?
That being said, Obama is going to regret this next time he needs to get out the vote.
Or what, you're going to vote to be ass raped by the evil guy on the right? Why do you think people on the right didn't vote for Gore or Kerry? In 2000, we voted for Bush hoping he wouldn't give us the anal raping that we knew Gore would and in 2004, we voted to take what we were already getting rather than the likelihood of getting it worse from Kerry.
This last election, I voted third party... until we start voting for what we believe in rather than voting to keep the other guy out of office, we're going to continue to get raped.
Stop Koolaid Politics
Greece, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Mexico. To name a few western democracies that are more corrupt.
Brazil? How much taxpayer money did President Lula spend killing Iraqis and destroying their property, apparently so friends and family could get control of Iraqi oil resources?
George W. Bush: $1 trillion? Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: R$ 0.00
Under Lula, the reputation of Brazil is becoming even better. Cheney and Bush did more damage to the reputation of the U.S. government than anyone else, by far.
Brought on by the very people he hired to "solve" it.
Oh, give it up. Wall St. collapsed in September. The people Obama hired were not in charge of things then. Stop helping Limbaugh and Hannity rewrite recent history.
"We can categorically state we have not released man-eating badgers into the area." - UK military spokesman, July 2007
Barack Hussein Barry-Soetoro-Afro-Leninist Obama II.
- Chairman Barack Hussein "The Teleprompter" Obama is deeply connected to corruption, Rahm Emanuel (Radical authoritarian Statist-Zionist whose father was part of the Murderous Civilian Killing Israeli Terrorist Organization known as IRGUN), Connected to Rod Blagojevich (Rahm inherited Rod's federal-congress seat), Connected to Ayers, a man who promotes the concept that civilian collateral damage is ok in a war against freedom, Preacher Jeremiah Wright, who is himself a black-elitist who wants all the people who largely "pay the freight" to suffer, 31 million on food stamps, more blacks are in prison and on food-stamps per capita than anyone else. The problem with Wright is simply this: the facts are "racist."
- Obama: Racist, AIPAC-Zionist, Corrupted and a Traitor and a Liar who can't even produce a valid birth certificate (which is not a certificate of live birth)
- Raytheon lobbyist in Pentagon
- Goldman Sachs insider second in command at Treasury.
- Cabinet has had several nominees and appointees with multiple tax fraud issues.
- The head of the IRS and the head of the Treasury, Geithner, is a Tax Cheat
- Lied about no lobbyists
- Lied about having a new degree of accountability and a SUNSHINE period of new laws, he has signed bills with little or no review at whitehouse.gov as promised.
- Appointed a second amendment violating Rich-pardoning treasonist Eric Holder as AG, the top cop of the USA, a man who helped a fugitive evade justice.
- Has not put a dime in for a single new nuclear power plant but wants to help bridges and roads to promote more driving.
- Obama, Blagojevich and Rahm Emanuel have a LOT to hide. They literally lived next to each other, Rahm had (until being Chairman Obama's Chief of staff) Blagojevich's old federal congressional seat. Blagojevich helped Chairman "The Teleprompter" Obama cheat his way to the Illinois senate by getting other candidates thrown off the ballot in Illinois. Why do you think Blagojevich was so mad? Obama DID owe him, big time. Rahm and Obama are using Blagojevich and trying to cut his head off to keep him away.
- Tony Rezko, Iraqi Arms Dealer Nahdmi Auchi, and of course Aiham Alsammarae. Chairman "The Teleprompter" Hussein Obama is so corrupted its a joke.
- Fools and "useful idiots" twist the pie charts by leaving welfare, workfare, interest on debt, social security, Medicare and Medicaid out and focusing only on non-whole "discretionary" pie charts.
2007 high level pie chart, Federal Budget, USA
2009 Pie chart, detailed, Federal Budget, USA
- Chairman Obama is drastically increasing spending and creating more entitlements that will make the US less competitive (especially against China, India, East Europe/Russia). This will be a huge disaster and change you can believe in will strap you and your grandkids with more debt. No taxation without representation? Obama is spending money for the next two-three generations and they can't even vote yet, or even have been born.
- An alternative to the dollar and a forex and a reserve currency came up at the last G20 meeting. The world will not take faith in Obama's liar-socialist spending and welfare state, why should the taxpayers (plebian citizen-slaves of a police state).
- The spending going on now vastly eclipses all previous spending. In fact, the massive trillion plus debts is a thing of the 80's onwards. Congress signs the checks, remember that Year after year, as egregious as the pentagon spending is, that the social spending is completely a waste of money and it is unfunded over the long term. Eisenhower built the interstates, the US could build a new power infrastructure with this money but instead is being pissed into creating more of an entitlement system that is STILL unfunded, and without massive poll-taxes and far
a contract that you get X dollars at the end of the year, with no strings attached.
Have you got any evidence that this is the case?
I'm pretty sure bonuses have strings attached.
You can't take the sky from me...