Comment Obama apoints Virrilli Solicitor General (Score 0) 463
If Virrilli is his pick for Solicitor General, so be it. He gets a lot of credit for a high profile file sharing entity, but he put nothing concrete in place to stop the intellectual property carnage that continues "under the radar". When Hillary Rosen headed the RIAA at the dawn of the internet, she was so inept that she ceded the entire system over to a new generation of "free" seekers and systemic theft became the norm for the first time in our nation's history. You can't steal a loaf of bread without risk of prosecution, but you can steal an artist's song, a studio movie (YouTube is crowded with unauthorized 4-10 part postings of entire movies), etc. Intellectual property is treated like bathroom tissue these days. Lower prices are good, "free" (aka theft) is bad and this brings harm to all, little by little, day by day.