Democrats want to fine you $250,000 for file sharing
Democrats are not going to help themselves if they back this bill that no Republican (yet) supports: new bill in the House wants to fine file sharers $250,000. The bill, titled "Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act (ACCOPS)", also wants to illegalize giving false information to register a domain, require warnings about the proposed law on P2P software, and order our Department of Justice to share information with foreign governments to aid them in tracking copyright infringers.

I've got a better idea: how about a bill that fines the RIAA $250,000 for every shitty album they put out? Then they'll be forced to release music that people will actually want to buy, thus alleviating their profit problems.

The RIAA's fingerpritns are all over this bill, introduced by Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan. A quick check on Open Secrets tells me that Mr. Conyers has raked in almost $50,000 from the entertainment industry, they are his second largest campaign contributor. The district this man represents is in the middle of Detriot. Outside of Robocop movies, Detriot doesn't strike me as Hollywood East, put yet Mr. Conyers receives thousands in contributions from the entertainment industry. If I wasn't headed out the door, I'd check the records of the bill co-sponsers, all Democrats.

We have a fraudulent president sitting in the Oval Office, lying to the American populace and murdering people halfway around the world, and a recession (even if it was declared over, there's still very high unemployment figures), yet Mr. Conyers thinks we should be concerned about harmless file sharers. Nice priorities, dipshit. People like Mr. Conyers remind me why I don't vote for Democrats.