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By: Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Member of The Peer-to-Peer Party? | Digital Daily | John Paczkowski | AllThingsD

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:24:39 +0000

[...] has come early for NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker. Back in October he called upon Congress to create a dedicated intellectual-property enforcement bureau and now he looks poised to get it. This week members of the House Judiciary Committee introduced [...]

By: Man the Coyright Battlements!

Man the Coyright Battlements! — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:40:38 +0000

[...] Zucker and the Institute for Policy Innovation. All Things D’s John Paczkowski has a great article on [...]

By: Jim Hillhouse

Jim Hillhouse — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:43:30 +0000

There’s a saying in Texas that goes something like this, “All things are as safe, as safe can be, until the Legislature is in session.” That thought comes to mind when I hear Sen. Hatch expound upon the need for increased protection of copyrighted material. I would like to think that Twain was right when he quipped, “We have the best Congress money can buy”, but he’s wrong there.

If Hatch and his colleague were half as rigorous as they like to think they are, maybe they could see through the fog of lobbyist and focus on doing what is right by the voters. And what really gets me is that neither the Conservatives (Hatch, et. al.) nor even the Liberals (Pelosi, et. al.) seem willing to do that. Twain (yes, again) was however correct when he said, “He’s an idiot; he’s a politician. But I repeat myself.”

Until someone(s) can find the issue, and present it so that it will galvanize the voters into wanting real change, and not the Republican/Democrat retreads like Hatch, Levin, Pelosi, Boehne, Specter, Boxer and so many others, this show looks like it will go on for season after season. Pity, too.

By: Eric Welch

Eric Welch — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:22:37 +0000

Forget Osama. That disabled mom in Oregon is the real threat to all things right and good in the world, according to these geniuses.

Like the Sony official who said, the other day, that ripping a CD onto a computer to have the music for one’s own personal enjoyment was basically theft.

What about the theft of the public’s time with such ludicrous arguments, which will go nowhere in the end?

Why don’t record executives lead the way to the moral high ground by stopping their stealing from musicians? Maybe then they can feel less hypocritical about calling their customers – who made them rich – thieves.