[1]http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26397.html
   Also Shoeshine boy...
   [2]http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26402.html
   I rob banks...
   [3]http://www.infoaust.com/prod79.htm
   back to The Entertainment Cartel's Lawmaking Marionettes
   Mercury News: Bill would let entertainment industry hack file-sharing
   networks. A sweeping new anti-piracy bill would give movie studios and
   record labels legal impunity to hack into file-sharing networks to halt
   the trade of copyrighted works. Introduced in Congress on Thursday, the
   bill prompted cries of vigilantism from technology advocates.
   It's tempting to write off these kinds of legislative stunts as the
   idiocy they are. The technical impossibility of getting such a law
   right is only part of the issue, however, as is the sheer lack of
   morality in the process.
   The bigger problem is the tendency of our lawmakers to bow to their
   corporate masters. Berman's campaign-finance debt to Hollywood and the
   rest of the entertainment cartel is understood, and certainly explains
   his willingness to screw customers.
   What's more worrisome is the rest of Congress -- the utter ignorance on
   the part of most members of the issues. We now live in a society that
   takes for granted Hollywood's outrageous lies about "intellectual
   property" and its protection, a society that simply does not understand
   the value -- the necessity -- of an open, robust public domain and fair
   use.
   Berman's stance is contemptible. Who's going to stop him?
   APster?
   FROM
   [4]http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/d
   an_gillmor/ejournal[5]/

References

   1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26397.html
   2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26402.html
   3. http://www.infoaust.com/prod79.htm
   4. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/
   5. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/