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Sadly, President Bush has allowed himself and the Department of Justice to be manipulated by the RIAA and MPAA. On October 13th, he signed the PRO-IP bill into law, ignoring calls to veto it and pretty clear indications that the bill was promoted using completely fabricated statistics. reddit_url='http://www.defectivebydesign.org/pro-ip-thanks' reddit_title='Hold your politicians accountable for PRO-IP' digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Hold_your_politicians_accountable_for_PRO_IP'; Any law described as "music to the ears" by the head of the RIAA is going to be trouble. But just because the bill has passed doesn't mean this issue is dead.

reddit_url='http://www.defectivebydesign.org/tell-bush-to-veto-proip' reddit_title='Last Chance: Tell Bush to veto the RIAA/MPAA Enforcement Bill' digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Last_Chance_Tell_Bush_to_veto_the_RIAA_MPAA_Enforcement_Bil'; Over the weekend, Congress in a shameful act of service to the campaign contributions of the entertainment industry passed "PRO-IP" legislation that requires our government to work directly on the industry's behalf against the public interest. Under the deceptive banner of "intellectual property", the bill as passed has several unacceptable provisions.

reddit_url='http://www.defectivebydesign.org/stop-revised-riaa-ip-enforcement-bill-s3325' reddit_title='Stop the MPAA and RIAA shadow government: Oppose S. 3325' In addition to all of the emails and phone calls they received from you, Senator Leahy and friends received a stern rebuke from the Department of Justice in response to their suggestion that the DoJ should be doing the RIAA and MPAA's dirty work.The DoJ said:

reddit_url='http://www.defectivebydesign.org/stop-riaa-ip-enforcement-bill-s3325' reddit_title='Stop the RIAA from using the Department of Justice to do its dirty work' The RIAA is continuing to try coercion to prop up its illegitimate and unethical business model. First, it is suing attorney Ray Beckerman over the revealing articles on his blog, Recording Industry vs The People. Beckerman has been instrumental in defending people victimized by the RIAA's tactics and has supported the DefectiveByDesign campaign.

"The New York Times is reporting that NBC, Microsoft, AT&T, digital filtering companies, and other assorted spooks were all abuzz at the Consumer Electronics Show over the prospects for spying on and preventing -- oops, I mean "filtering" -- of Internet content at the network level, as demanded by the RIAA, MPAA, and, well, you know the drill." -- VIA Lauren Weinstein: http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000355.html

"...Glickman is the self-described "chief hired gun or mercenary for the [motion picture] industry," and his comments give us a window into what the movie studios are thinking. His words yesterday revealed that movie execs are thinking about one thing in particular: the technology that can be used to halt film piracy. And they expect ISPs to implement it...'