MPAA-AG
A letter by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, which is being circulated to state AGs, seems to set the stage for a legal assault on the makers of p2p file sharing software, a "dangerous product." The kicker? Wired News reports that the letter's MS Word metadata identifies the drafter or editor of the letter as a VP with the Motion Picture Association of America.
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Isn't technology wonderful
What? Nobody cares that the government is an extension of the corporate board? Nobody?
This isn't a California-only problem, you know.
>Nobody cares that the government is an extension
>of the corporate board?
I think everyone takes that for granted.
Seriously, this is way too dog-bites-man to create much outrage.
Which is, itself, pretty outrageous.