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Submission + - A Visit from MPAA Senior VP Rich Taylor

tedswiss writes: Fate has dropped a unique opportunity upon my lap: I teach at a moderately small independent school who has as one of its alums Richard Taylor. Mr. Taylor is both speaking at our start-of-year festivities and being honored with this year's "Distinguished Alum Award." Having followed and been disgusted by the MPAA's corporate practices regarding DRM and government lobbying in the past (Anyone remember DeCSS?), I would love to make his visit help to truly educate our student body, not just indoctrinate them. The school administration is sympathetic to my plight, but I want to present them with more than just my complaints. To the /. community: How would you best make use of this opportunity if you found yourself in my shoes?

Comment Re:Only one side of the story (Score 1) 725

I googled around a bit to try to find more information about the story, and there's nothing out there related to this story besides this guys' account. There are quite a few complaints about him defrauding people, but thats quite unrelated to the whole Patriot Act issue.

How do we know that the Patriot Act was invoked to get access to his records? If this guy was being investigated for fraud, law enforcement would have no problem getting permission to access his financial records, with or without the Patriot Act.

I think the whole idea that the MPAA/RIAA is skirting around the civil courts is reprehensible, but again, thats a completely different issue. If I'm profiting from distributing copywrited material, the Patriot Act is probably the least of my worries.

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