Copyright For Sale: What the Sony Docs Say About MPAA Buying Political Influence

An anonymous reader writes: The linkage between political funding and the major copyright lobby groups is not a new issue as for years there have been stories about how groups like the MPAA and RIAA fund politicians that advance their interests. Michael Geist digs into the Sony document leak to see how the MPAA coordinates widespread buying of politicians with political funding campaigns led by former Senator Christopher Dodd to federal and state politicians. The campaigns include efforts to circumvent donation limits by encouraging executives to spend thousands on influential politicians, leading to meetings with Barack Obama, the head of the USTR and world leaders.

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Political System Works as Designed

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Sony Email Hack reveals American Political System works as designed, news at 11.

Cue the mock outrage and political maneuvering designed to invent a scandal.

There is nothing below board with supporting politicians who you agree with, that is representative democracy. Yes there are valid concerns all over the world with now allowing unproportional support. But America allows and embraces people who spend more time campaigning for the politician they support; People who are just more charismatic and better able to sway others to their position; People who have more time or make more time (special interest groups) for supporting their politicians; And finally people who have more money specifically to donate to support their politics. And Corporations as nothing more than groups of individual citizens, are or course allowed to do all of this as well.