🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 13:49:00 GMT, Mitchell Holman <ta2eene@attbi.com> wrote:

>bm@beerman.com (Beer Man) wrote in news:GGD72g2gh67CA56@beman.com:
>
>> WASHINGTON -- A proposal by a California congressman would give
>> the entertainment industry broad new powers to try to stop people
>> from downloading pirated music and movies off the Internet. 
>> 
>> Rep. Howard L. Berman, D-Calif., formally proposed legislation that
>> would give the industry unprecedented new authority to secretly hack
>> into consumers' computers or knock them off-line entirely if they 
>> are caught downloading copyrighted material
>> 
>> [ snip ]
>
>
>   Here is part of that [snip]
>
>"Berman is the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary 
>subcommittee on courts, the Internet and intellectual 
>property. Other sponsors of the measure include Reps. 
>Howard Coble, R-N.C., Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and Robert 
>Wexler, D-Fla. Coble has also received significant 
>contributions from the entertainment industry."
>
>
>   My goodness, what are all those *Republicans*
>doing there?

Getting their cut of the bribes? :)