The Copyright Alliance seems to believe piracy is worse than burglary, fraud and armed robbery. Ars Technica has an awesome article on it. In other news, Microsoft believes using Linux is worse than not tipping a good waitress, beating your wife or supporting terrorism.

Twenty-nine (29) entities that favor facist intellectual property laws have now formed a single lobby group. This is not a good thing for consumers; only for the corporations. Any legislation they back will serve only to strip consumers of rights and cripple competition. I am now very afraid.

If the Intellectual Property Protection Act passes into law and simply "attempting" to infringe copyrights is cause for wiretaps, imprisonment and asset forfeiture, you can be damned sure I'll protest by leaving the US as quickly as I possibly can.

US Department of Homeland Security to the Internet: All your base are belong to us. (See story.)

I despise the United States Patent and Trademark Office with a passion.

The US signed a multi-billion dollar trade deal with Colombia. Surprisingly, this had nothing to do with cocaine.

An article at InformationWeek makes me happy. The Democrats in Congress appear to back Net Neutrality. So, the Net as we know it may still be safe. :)

A collection of links of clips on YouTube.

Between classifying previously declassified documents and closing research libraries, and stalling a bill that calls for opening government contracting to public scrutiny, the US government is getting increasingly secretive in an era of NSA wiretaps and warantless seaches a la the Patriot Act...