[78-L] In Bono we trust^ [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

Look at the headlines on cnn.com today:  Woman fined $1.9mill for downloading 24 songs.

Big Brother and the Copyright Police, coming to a venue near you soon....

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com> wrote:

> From: Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com>
> Subject: [78-L] In Bono we trust^
> To: "78-L email" <78-L at 78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 9:07 AM
> In passing (actually, in awaiting
> "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart") I 
> happened upon "Reno 911", a show I never watch. As I
> flipped past the 
> Copyright Enforcement police were forcibly breaking up a
> kid's backyard 
> birthday party and impounding a pinata because it was in
> the shape of 
> the forbidden image of Spongebob Squarepants. The kids were
> so 
> devastated they commenced to beating the cops soundly with
> the sticks 
> they would have used to open the pinata.
> Is this what it's all coming to?
> 'Ware the Copyright Police!
> Mal
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