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Can Washington Charge Unauthorized Downloaders With Tax Evasion?
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| A bunch of states have been pushing forward with plans to add taxes on
| digital downloads. The state of Washington apparently passed just such a law,
| which is scheduled to go into effect on July 26th. Nate sent in a note,
| pointing out that under a strict reading of the details of the bill you could
| see how the state could go after unauthorized downloaders as "tax evaders."
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090602/2349035107.shtml
"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with
politics," respond those who don't want to learn."
--Richard Stallman
Recent:
Joe Biden promises a blank check to the entertainment cartel
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| VP Joe Biden stood up in front of a bunch of Hollywood execs and promised to
| appoint a copyright czar, and furthermore, that this would be the "right"
| person to protect their interests. I would have voted Dem in the last
| election, if I got a vote, but make no mistakes: the Dems are the party of
| stupid copyright laws.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/22/joe-biden-promises-a.html
Administration Lobbyist Ban Not Doing What It's Supposed To Do
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| We've already seen how the Justice Department is, for example, being filled
| with lawyers who regularly worked with the RIAA, MPAA and BSA -- three of the
| biggest copyright lobbying organizations, and those individuals have wasted
| no time in expressing their desire to continue pushing those industry's
| viewpoints in their new positions.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090422/0419234608.shtml
RIAA Brief Attacks Free Software Foundation
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| In their proposed response, the RIAA lawyers personally attacked The Free
| Software Foundation, Ray Beckerman (NewYorkCountryLawyer), and NYCL's
| blog, 'Recording Industry vs. The People'. The 9-page response (PDF) — 4
| pages longer than the document to which it was responding — termed the FSF an
| organization 'dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying,
| redistribution, and modifying computer programs', and accused the FSF of
| having an 'open and virulent bias against copyrights' and 'blatant bias'
| against the record companies.
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http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/2041241&from=rss
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