Orrin Hatch's Other Ridiculous Copyright Bill Passes The Senate

from the snuck-it-in... dept

It seems that Orrin Hatch is involved in just about every bizarre anti-consumer, pro-Hollywood piece of legislation these days. Just days after introducing his absolutely ridiculous and dangerous INDUCE act, Hatch's PIRATE Act has passed the Senate without debate and via a voice vote, so there's no record of which of your Senators just agreed to take your tax money to fight Hollywood's battles. If you don't remember, the PIRATE Act would let the FBI work on civil cases against copyright infringers. In other words, cases that should be between two private parties, will now be handled by the federal government, using your tax money. There's simply no justification for this, other than some Senators wanting to pay back their entertainment industry backers by doing their legal work for them -- using your money.
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  1. identicon
    ::CORY::, 26 Jun 2004 @ 6:52am

    No Subject Given

    Well since we have perfect Health care and protection of our jobs from overseas markets, oh yeah - and schools are perfect and the war on drugs and terrorism is over, this is the only thing left to fight.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 26 Jun 2004 @ 1:26pm

    Hatch knows how to turn a buck as Senator


    He seldom promotes a low he doesn't profit from directly.

    He passed a law that a pharmaceuticals lost in shipment had to go to a company he owned, and he would be allowed to re-sell them.

    Follow the money. He is getting more than campaign contributions from this.

    link to this | view in thread ]


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