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Exempting industries from legal restraints is apparently a trend in the current Congress. Rep. Berman wants the record industry to enjoy exemption from laws that bind all other Americans, and, last week, Congress passed a bill exempting the gun industry from lawsuits - making it the only U.S. industry immune from suits, if the Senate concurs.
I am baffled by the change in the democratic process in this nation in the last 3 years... seems to me that part of 'democracy' is that everybody plays by the same rules, no matter how well-funded their lobby is.
Even more baffling is the fact that most Americans - something like 70%, support restraints on gun sales, but Congress and the Senate, supposed representatives of said electorate, often pass gun industry-favoring legislation, including this most recent effort.
Another baffling issue is that the gun industry is a hardware industry, and as such, is not as wealthy as software industries like those represented by RIAA and MPA. It's only recently that Hollywood has begun to get special-interest legislation passed (copyright extension DMCA), whereas the theoretically threadbare gun industry has a long and rich history of special-interest legislation. Please, poli-sci experts, explain this to me... |
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RIAA swamping networks with bogus files. Next step: trashing hard drives with music-label-funded viruses, according to one recording industry executive: 'Hey, if you don't mind stealing my career and livelihood, I'm sure you don't mind if I destroy your hard drive.' Beverly Hills Congressman Howard Berman (D) wants to make it legal for record and movie companies to commit felonies in the defense of their IP... Berman has a press release on his site lauding an alliance between RIAA and the Business Software Alliance... Comments 7:43:03 PM 
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Mac's NeXT? Dan Gillmor on how the coolest parts of the Mac are really the NeXT technologies Steve J. brought to Apple. Interesting view of the future of software development: the "Samurai" model for OS X and possibly a broader field... Comments 4:44:18 PM
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Updated 4/16/04; 12:34:40 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:34:40 PM
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