Someone is finally standing up to the Ernst Hollings (D-Disney) and his gang of RIAA thugs:
The recording industry’s wave of subpoenas that target individual computer users has drawn the critical attention of at least one influential lawmaker on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., who chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a letter to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Thursday that criticized its recent spate of subpoenas and asked for detailed information on how the process is working. Coleman said the RIAA may be going too far.
“The industry has legitimate concerns about copyright infringement,” Coleman said in a statement. “Yet, the industry seems to have adopted a ‘shotgun’ approach that could potentially cause injury and harm to innocent people who may have simply been victims of circumstance, or possessing a lack of knowledge of the rules related to digital sharing of files.”
Atta boy Norm. Another good reason to have sent Mondale packing last year.
Barney Gumble
Guess he was done shitting on Wellstone’s grave.
Hey Norm, you might want to check out the Disney/Trent Lott connection.
John Cole
Good ole Barney- always willing to rewrite history to his liking.
Matthew
Hey Barney, if Mondale had won, would he be fighting the RIAA or would he defer to his old Ernest Hollings and go in the tank for them?
Matt Navarre
there’s a Republican senator from Minnesota?
Good lord, the end times are near.
chris
Hey Matt,
“there’s a Republican senator from Minnesota?
Good lord, the end times are near.”
You are forgetting Rudy Boschwitz, republican senator from MN in the 1980s.
Sean
oh Rudy, the guy who said Paul Wellstone wasn’t a real Jew, because he married a non-Jew…yeah, he wasn’t a Republican, he was just an ass.