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Re: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use

[H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Darth Chaos spake thusly:
>> On Jan 1, 10:13 pm, "[H]omer" <s...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> As for right-wing extremist American laws like the DMCA, that's a 
>>> different matter, and (fortunately) completely irrelevant to me.
>>> That's another disease that should be on the Supreme Court's squish
>>> list.
>> 
>> Sorry to burst your bubble, but the DMCA was a bipartisan attack co- 
>> authored by "left wing" Patrick Leahy (Democrat) and "right wing" 
>> Orrin Hatch (Republican), and your "leftist" "heroes" such as Pelosi 
>> want to strengthen copyright laws because their Hollywood and Silicon
>> Valley funders pay them to do so.
> 
> I was referring to the political ideals that drive the inception of such
> laws, not the pseudo-left politicians and campaigners who instigate them
> for reasons that defy traditional left-wing values. AFAICT there are not
> any true left-wingers in the US at all; the so-called Democrats are just
> a marginally less extreme form of Republicans. Exactly the same thing as
> what happened in the UK when the socialist Labour party became the "New"
> Labour party. Like the US, the UK now only has *one* political party ...
> the fascists. They're represented by two factions that ostensibly appear
> to compete, but *actually* represent exactly the same political ideals -
> everything else is branded "fringe" politics, and its supporters branded
> "loons". In this way, the electorate are fooled into believing they have
> a choice, that the democratic process is still alive and well, that they
> control who democratically represents the people; but the reality is the
> complete opposite, as the attendees at Bilderberg know only too well.
> 

The illusion of choice in the absence of choice has become fundamental
to our current economy, from the "how would you like your egg cooked"
(it remains an egg!) to which right-wing party would you like to vote
for, or which Microsoft/BBC iPlayer would you like to use on which
version of Microsoft Windows Vista.

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