Tax Payers getting fleeced

http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9829826-38.html

I’m glad our public servants, congress, the house of reps, and the white house, are hard at work protecting the interests of large corporate conglomerates over the interest of the voting public. It’s reassuring to know that corporations can in wholesale fashion buy the right to claim ordinary people are criminals and outlaws when they use fair use on purchased intellectual properties. It’s good to know that since the government has no problem fleecing monies out of the pockets of hard working Americans everywhere that they are willing to allow corporations to do the very same thing by ramping up protectionist schemes.

It’s good to know that the best way to protect innovation and creative creation is by slapping ordinary citizens with multi-thousand and multi-million dollar penalties, felony charges and jail time for sharing with a friend or family member an interesting sound track or video. As the MPAA and RIAA and now the DOJ know you don’t need to adjust to the technology trend and consumer demands, you just need to make them criminals and force them to stick to old models of business and distribution. Our public servants do indeed take their common responsibility to corporations very seriously and will, with a few thousands of dollars sacrifice public interest to corporate greed; I mean ambition for maintained profit.

Rest assured Americans, the government will take care of you by making sure that you go to jail and pay outrageously large fines for small value sharing but at the same time they will increase taxes to provide this improved quality of life to you. This is for your benefit not theirs.

Caio

Update: 12/07/07

Here's a link to another blog that has the right idea.

http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/12/06/a-note-to-nancy-pelosi-regarding-the-pro-ip-act/