This week, Obama announced the appointment of a new RIAA lawyer to join the justice department. Obama named Ian Gershengorn as one of the new members of the justice department, marking the fifth lawyer from the RIAA to join.
Gershengorn will become the department's deputy assistant attorney of the Civil Division.
All five RIAA lawyers have been at the front line with file sharing ligation and have targeted both file sharing firms and individuals.
Despite many public interest groups urging Obama to stop filling his administration with RIAA lawyers, Gernshengorn made it through the doors anyway.
The Public Knowledge Group, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Consumer Electronics Association, the Wikimedia Foundation, the American Library Association and many others, demanded Obama look outside the content litigation industry for filling his administration. So far, the groups' voices have gone unheard.
Im sure im gunna get thumbed for this post like crazy...w/e everyone is entitled to their opinion.
The RIAA has no interest in an elegant or balanced solution that I've seen.
"Well having been through Napster and P2P networks, I think its time people started paying for music again. One cannot make the argument about it now since on Amazon, most albums are $10 or less. Especially considering you don't have to pay for the whole album anymore. Just the songs you like. Most of the albums I buy are under $7 for a full length album. I've been there since CDs first came out and I can't believe I used to pay $15 back in 1984 for a cd with only 2-3 decent songs. Now you can pay $3 for 3 songs??? "
I am sure glad he is not "my" president
http://xkcd.com/86/
now we know how we end up with the laws that we have
we have the best government money can buy
and this administration, congress, like past administrations, congress is in the pockets of big business
we are all f*ck*d
i'm pleading insanity... ;-)
There weren't really any viable alternatives (though the Ficus did look kind of promising).
What planet are you living on. Obama fan or foe, every single statement you have made is completely non-factual.
Yawn, more evidence of the true reason why this country is failing atm, idiots like you.
Did you even READ the bill? Oh wait you didn't. It only gives him the power to shut down the connections of government or financial institutions. It is also IMPOSSIBLE for the internet to be shut down. Ok not impossible as the only two ways are, 1. destroy all of civilization, 2. Make all DNS shutdown, which is next to impossible.