begin Ben Rosenberg's quote: | And after Herr Ashcroft is done over the next | few years..get ready to do hard time for stupid shit. It's probably | a real fear with the ChickenHawks that are running the U.S. Gov | right now..and maybe for the forseeable future..since most | Americans are SO scared right now that all those Chickenhawks have | to do is say *boo terrorist* and they will have the power to do | anything they damn please as long as people have the illusion they | are safe. It's all crap. not the least being the sentiments expressed above. it is without exception democrats who are pushing the copyright/patent stuff. the dmca was a teddy kennedy project. cbdtpa is fritz hollings. jack valenti was chief advisor to lyndon johnson. hop on over to opensecret and see who the entertainment industry is giving money to. hint: it ain't the current administration, it wasn't the current administration when it was seeking office, and it ain't republicans. the only reason the cbdtpa is not law right now is that republicans in the house would not even bring it before the committee. so you might have a problem with the administration, and that's fine, but you're barking up the wrong tree on this issue. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.