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White House Holding Piracy Summit

Posted by kdawson on from the meet-the-new-boss dept.

DesScorp writes in to let us know about a White House piracy summit, which is going on this afternoon. Judging by the press accounts, the sort of intellectual property criminals they are interested in are large-scale DVD bootleggers, not individual downloaders. "Hollywood once again demonstrates its close ties to Washington DC, regardless of who is in power, with a White House summit on piracy to be attended by the top executives in Hollywood, as well as the music industry. Vice President Joe Biden will be leading the summit to discuss organized cooperation between the federal government and the entertainment industry on all matters of piracy. Also at the summit will be the Obama Administration's new Copyright Czar, Victoria Espinal. The summit comes after Congress has earmarked $30 million dollars of taxpayer funds for anti-piracy efforts." According to one attendee's tweet, the press was kicked out of the meeting around 20:45 GMT.

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  1. Re:!change by Shakrai · · Score: 1, Troll

    John McCain disqualified himself when he picked someone completely unqualified to serve as President to be his running mate.......

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    We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
  2. Re:!change by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here's the problem: before we can elect a libertarian to high political office, the Libertarian Party will have to find one amongst their number who is not insane.

    And I don't mean "has weird political views" insane, I mean nose-picking, drooling, playing with their own feces insane.

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  3. It doesn't help when we refer to it as piracy by DJRumpy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why do we on ./ continue to perpetrate the lie? This is not piracy. It is copyright infringement.

  4. Re:!change by Shakrai · · Score: 0, Troll

    Awww, how cute, one of my freaks came out of the woodwork to defend me against a bullshit mod :)

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    I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
    We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
  5. Re:!change by daveime · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hehe another coolforsale.com clone, complete with Engrish plivacy poricy word-for-word and the unbeatable "we'll refund half your money" returns policy. keywords : chinese sweatshop spam cool for sale