LOL at the Prohibition analogy in the second article. Hopefully there will be just as much public outcry as there was back then... "tar and feather" the RIAA bosses, anyone?
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Originally posted by AyuRocks
the RIAA's actions make new criminals out of tens of millions of ordinary US citizens... If the RIAA was to be indulged in its whims, the statistics suggest that the USA would rapidly become a vast, continent-wide penal colony
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Had to agree with that point... though the author exaggerated a bit, it would be true that most computer users in the world would be considered criminals under this new act.