2004-06-26 USA

• Cheney says “fuck!” – but his administration wants to ban “fuck!” on TV... ¹
• The US Administration phases ous sex education and returns to the medieval ages – *abstinence as the only way to prevent the spread of AIDS* ²
• Copyright stuff: *[...] basically a bill that can make the creation of technology that could possibly be used for “piracy” illegal.* ³ What I really liked about this post is his call for help: *Japan always gets hand-me-downs of ugly US bills so please stop it!* – the same is true for Switzerland! I get the feeling we should be given a vote in the US, since our governments are too lousy to defend themselves against US politics and our own lobbies.
• More copyright. I think I already linked to this from somewhere, but I’m not sure, so here goes again. ’’A paper by Felix Oberholzer of Harvard Business School and Koleman Strumpf of UNC Chapel Hill shows strong evidence that file-sharing has “statistically indistinguishable from zero” effect on CD sales and the RIAA decides to sue 482 more people for sharing copyright music on peer-to-peer networks. This brings the number of people sued by the RIAA for file-sharing to 3,429. I guess that if you can’t convince everyone, you can always try to scare people into submission.’’ ⁴

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