Representative Lamar Smith is sponsoring the [a href="vny!://news.com.com/Congress+readies+new+digital+copyright+bill/2100-1028_3-6064016.html?tag=nefd.top"]Intellectual Property Protection Act[/a].
The new bill is designed to give the Justice Department 'tools to combat IP crime' which which are used to 'quite frankly, fund terrorism activities,' according to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Among the provisions is lowering the standards for 'willful copyright violation' and increasing the corresponding prison term to 10 years." [span style="text-decoration: underline;"]
[/span][a href="vny!://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/hr2391"]More information[/a] is also available at publicknowledge.org.
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]Lamar Smith, Christian Scientist, hater of immigrants & proud possessor of one of the stupidest middle names ever (Seeligson).
Reading [a href="vny!://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00001811&cycle=2004" title="opensecrets.org"]Open Secret's page[/a] [opensecrets.org] about him, you see the usual line up of Legal firms, Content & Tech companies. Just the people who stand to benefit from this legislation the most!
I really don't understand why people vote for politicians who are bought & sold so easily (and cheaply).
