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Submission + - John Melloncamp: We need tougher IP laws (huffingtonpost.com)

Vladius writes: "From the Huffington Post, John Melloncamp states that the DMCA is weak and "kind of a joke" when dealing with search engines. He also supports the removal of safe harbor provisions. All of this is being done, in his opinion, because it is ruining the music industry and costing us jobs."

Comment Real jobs and real wealth (Score 1) 606

You frequently hear the right wing "fact" that the government can't create jobs. This is false, as an example Warner Robins Air Force Base in middle Georgia is the single largest employer in the state of Georgia. You also hear about the benefits of investing in the stock market. All that Wall Street can do is make money. What do both of these have in common? Neither one of them actually create wealth. The government can create jobs but not wealth. Wall Street makes money but in the end it doesn't create wealth either. This is our new "business" model. We don't have any real industry left so all we do now is create money from reshuffling and hiding our old debt. A storm is coming. 2008 was just a warning but we didn't listen. We bailed out Wall Street and now they are back to business as usual.

Comment New series or GTFO (Score 1) 268

I find it funny that they are trying to bury a script for a TV show that got cancelled decades ago. If they really, truly cared then they should use the material, not let it sit in some moldy file cabinet never to be seen. And don't give me the line about the new Trek movies. The movie is nice but 1) it's been 3 years and they are just starting filming on a retread of an old movie and 2) Trek has always been at it's best on TV as a series. The current trilogy is a dead end for the franchise.

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