{"id":1107,"date":"2002-07-25T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-25T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2002-07-25T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-25T20:39:00","slug":"berman-and-coble-pimping-for-their-corporate-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/07\/25\/16\/39\/berman-and-coble-pimping-for-their-corporate-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Berman And Coble Pimping For Their Corporate Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So two congressmen with no shame have drafted a nutty bill that would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/cnet\/CNET_2100-1023-946316.html\">allow movie and music companies to hack into people&#8217;s personal computers<\/a> and networks to erase or <a href=\"http:\/\/politechbot.com\/p-03795.html\">destroy &#8220;copyrighted&#8221; material<\/a>. Most notably, it indemnifies corporations against personal torts resulting from their error for damages under $250. So even if you&#8217;ve almost finished the greatest novel ever written but failed to find a buyer yet, if they erase it, you get nothing. If they destroy your hard drives but show the replacement value is below $250, you lose. And so on.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/indus.asp?CID=N00008094&#038;cycle=2002\">top industries supporting Howard L. Berman<\/a> are:<br \/>\n1 TV\/Movies\/Music $186,891<br \/>\n2 Lawyers\/Law Firms $97,100<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/indus.asp?CID=N00002247&#038;cycle=2002\">top industries supporting Howard Coble<\/a> are:<br \/>\n1 Lawyers\/Law Firms $35,515<br \/>\n2 TV\/Movies\/Music $33,483<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing these two &#8220;gentlemen&#8221; would not do to keep sucking at the media industry tit. Even to the degree of drafting such nonsensical law that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/constitution.amendmentxiv.html\">clearly violates the &#8220;equal treament&#8221; under privilege or immunity of the 14th Amendment<\/a> by immunizing corporations against felonious activities conducted by them against citizens without considering due process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So two congressmen with no shame have drafted a nutty bill that would allow movie and music companies to hack into people&#8217;s personal computers and networks to erase or destroy &#8220;copyrighted&#8221; material. Most notably,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}