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[rone]

A big FUCK YOU to my friends at the FCC:

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators on Wednesday fined CBS a record $550,000 for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction," which exposed the singer's breast during the Super Bowl halftime show.

They magnanimously decided not to fine the affiliates, only the CBS-owned stations.

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You can almost hear Jack Valenti snort-laughing:

Sacramento -- Aiding the industry that helped him gain worldwide fame, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation Tuesday aimed at discouraging online piracy by requiring anyone disseminating movies or music on the Internet to disclose their e-mail address.

California file sharers who trade songs or films without providing an e-mail address will be guilty of a misdemeanor, under the first-in-the-nation measure that could make it easier for law enforcement to track down people who illegally download copyrighted material.

That's gonna be really hard to circumvent.  And really easy to enforce!

Schwarzenegger also vetoed a bill that would have mandated sending juvenile parolees who are caught in a nonviolent drug offense to drug treatment rather than back into confinement with the California Youth Authority.

The War on Drugs... it's FAN-tastic!

Comments

[dumplechan.livejournal.com]

California file sharers who trade songs or films without providing an e-mail address will be guilty of a misdemeanor

Also, all bank robbers must wear name tags at all times! Bad penmanship is sufficient for a citation!

Actually, I don't think it's quite as silly as that. But it seems as though this would require lots of p2p infrastructure changes before this could work.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Except it's completely unenforceable. What are the p2p people going to do, put out separate editions for their California users? As it is, i'm pretty sure you can stick a real e-mail address into Kazaa Lite, if you wanted to.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Will you be required to check your email? Because I'm pretty sure spammers will be using your email address a hell of a lot more than the State of CA will.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

What makes you think spammers would collect the e-mail addresses provided by p2p users?

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Why not fine Janet jackson?

[skipernicus.livejournal.com]

I'm still with "infernal machine", on politics. I know, necessary evil, but urgh.

[crankysysadmin.livejournal.com]

When someone ends up on the no-fly list because a spammer used their email address to trade files in California, I will laugh heartily, because the snake will have eaten its own tail.