RIAA & BSA Lawyers Taking Top Justice Department Posts

Started by Atomm · 8 posts · 1,452 views

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    slashdot wrote:"Following the appointment of RIAA's champion Donald Verrilli as associate deputy attorney general, here's a complete roundup of all the RIAA and BSA-linked lawyers comfortably seated at top posts at the Department of Justice by the new government. Not strange, since US VP Joe Biden is well known for pushing the copyright warmongers agenda in Washington. Just in case you don't know, Verrilli is the nice man who sued the pants off Jammie Thomas."


    And so it begins...... I'm not liking this.....
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    It is certainly disturbing. It makes me think that this is the reason that the RIAA has stopped sueing people. Let's see how big a hole the RIAA can dig for themselves now....
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    Basically your music crowd is worried like the 2nd amendment rights people.

    From Reason Online (that I profoundly hope is correct), the gist of the article being that Hope-And-Change Hussein is unlikely to move against us for fear of the long-term consequences for the Dems:

    But as far as actual action to restrict gun rights on the federal level, not much is imminent or moving. Congress and the new president are very, very busy spending the U.S. further into hyperinflation or bankruptcy and figuring out exit strategies (or not) from Bush-era foreign policy entanglements. While Justice Department's focus on enforcing existing gun laws may well increase, we're unlikely to see any significant new federal efforts that infringe on the Heller-certified constitutional right to own common weapons for self-defense in the home.

    The gun rights community, in other words, is most likely wrong about the extent to which the Obama administration will try to restrict gun rights. (Not that, even in a post-Heller age, they don’t have reason to be worried; short of D.C.-style total gun bans, lower courts so far seem sure that any other gun regulations go under the ruling.) The political irony is that being mistaken about the magnitude of the threat can guarantee they achieve their goals—being wrong, especially convincing the gun rights rank and file to grossly overestimate the Obama threat, will help ensure that the threat never becomes real—even if it never would have.


    So hopefully the state of the state is so fucked up, that all of their attention will be cast on un-fucking what the Republicans did and instituting their on version of utopia that they'll leave guns, music, Roe v Wade and other standing rights alone while they try to pull a donkey outta' the hat.

    Here's mud in your eye. Wanna bet my liberty is infringed before yours?
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    I don't think that further gun control is on the radar at all at the moment, just like a number of other issues. There is a huge line of other problems waiting behind the major economic one, and I honestly don't think it is a huge priority for Obama even if there wasn't the current crisis - but that could just be the fact that the economy has overshadowed discussion of just about everything else.....

    I think the music industry stuff falls into the same category. I'm hopeful because the guy who is the head of the FCC is a real supporter of the net neutrality and other similar efforts. He's also a former Harvard classmate of Obama's and maybe that will outweigh some deputy AG.
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    But, this shows just how powerful the lawyers behind the RIAA initiate really are. It also goes to show just how entangled the RIAA has become with our elected leaders. This is paybacks in my opinion.

    I do like his FCC pick, but I believe something else is behind the Justice Department moves and it worries me.

  6. #6
    The problem with lawyers is that it is difficult to tell what they truly believe vs. what they are being paid to do. These guys were certainly paid by the industry to do what they did, but I don't know how they felt about it. Maybe it led them to see what is wrong with the current system. Likely not, but I have to have some hope 😀
  7. #7
    Sigh, its not as if he just reached into your wallet and took $4 a week is it?

    If they are going to tax tobacco for social engineering, I say bring on a music tax to do the same.
  8. #8
    Sweet! And while we are at it, Tax McDonalds too! That shit will kill you!