  So I'm reading on urlLink Wired.com right now about how Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) wants to pass a law called The urlLink Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act. This law is supposed to protect copyrights by making it illegal for any technology that "induces infringement".
It's aimed at Peer-to-Peer networks but aparently from it's vague descriptions, applies to any technology or device that allows someone to violate another's copyright. You can read more about it on Wired... But my thoughts are this... I think I'm getting quite sick of special interest groups managing or trying to push legislation through that protects their interest but harms the rest of Americans. If we want to keep people from doing anything illegal, I guess we should take away everything that allows people to break the law.
To me that would include guns, cars, telephones, various sharp objects found around the home... Organizations like SCO and the RIAA are really focused on copyrights and patents, basically because their whole business model revolves around them. They are not so concerned with producing new and innovative products that encourage the consumer to buy more, but are simply ready to sue anyone out of existance that comes to close to imitating them. Why do we still pay $17 for a CD at the store? I was paying that much for them when they first started to get big. I know the cost of the actual production has gone down. And why do the artists only see a small percentage of that price? Oh that's right, to keep the big fat cats in million dollar mansions in Bel Aire somehwere... I forgot... I'm all about being a capitalist. Go supply and demand! But if people demand lower prices on CD's and you don't give it to them, yeah, you're going to start losing money.
Or more appropriately put, just making less because you're ripping everyone off to start with. Don't get me started on broad reaching patents which only have the purpose of allowing companies to sue other companies that compete... Isn't competition supposed to be part of capitalizism? 
