Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA

boarder8925 writes "In a move sure to surprise no one, Obama has come out on the side of the MPAA/RIAA and has backed the ACTA: 'We're going to aggressively protect our intellectual property,' Obama said in his speech, 'Our single greatest asset is the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people [...] It is essential to our prosperity and it will only become more so in this century. But it's only a competitive advantage if our companies know that someone else can't just steal that idea and duplicate it with cheaper inputs and labor.'"

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Re:Heinlein said it best

[frank_adrian314159]

You know, in every discussion about IP, some dork posts this quote. Not that it's a bad quote, but for God's sake, anyone who hasn't seen this by now must (a) be unable to read, (b) has been in a coma for the past ten years, or (c) has Alzheimer's, so they don't remember it. In any case, it is no longer interesting, informative, funny, or any other of the positive moderation accolades it has been given. Please everyone, when you see this quote posted for the billionth time, mark it down, not because it's inherently bad, but because it's getting dreadfully boring. I tend to think "-1 Redundant" would be appropriate.