Ray,

I am not sure what the liberal comment has to do with this? Having never voted for a Democrat and only once voting for a Republican for President, I think I am about as Independent as they come. I don't see this as a liberal issue and in the case of Common Cause, which I believe typically leans left, they are the ones who gave me the info we needed to share. I find nothing liberal in the concepts and warnings which all seem valid to me. I see to benefit to the opposing argument for anyone but Big Business, and not even ALL Big Business but rather ONLY the big business that the IP's choose to work with. Who the hell needs that?

We can continue to let multinational corporations get a tighter and tighter stranglehold on media and communications services and then hope they don't have an agenda or we can at least fight to keep the Internet open for both the Left, Right and Middle to get their opinions out without them being filtered by 3rd party corporate interests.

It's also exactly how the Major label system could artifically regain control of the music industry which is slipping through their bloated fingers. If they can make sure only the music they handle will be found on the web using the IP's they control or pay off, then we have the same artificial contraints and lack of "shelf" space in record stores they've used to control things to date. At best, it's simply handing power over to a new gatekeeper. For what exactly?

Brian

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