Proving once and for all that they are unabashed corporate whores, the Bush Administration has decided to let Hillary Rosen write Iraq's post-Hussein IP laws. They're not even being subtle about raping the world anymore. I can think of nobody more inappropriate (save for maybe Jack Valenti) to write IP laws. Watch fair use and all non-DRM media go out the window. Watch for them to plug the analog hole

It's official. Michael Powell and the FCC are corporate whores. So now the RBOCs are being given an unregulated monopoly over lines that the public paid for. And they're doing this in the name of encouraging investment? Now maybe I'm missing something, but can't the RBOCs sit back and make a handsome profit off the existing (paid-for) infrastructure without incurring any risk? Even under the 1996

God save the Queen
the fascist regime,
they made you a moron
a potential H-bomb.

God save the Queen
she ain't no human being.
There is no future
in England's dreaming

Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need.
There's no future
there's no future
there's no future for you

God save the Queen
we mean it man
we love our queen
God saves