Where does the RIAA and MPAA and their ilk get the big money to push this through congress? OUR PURCHASES. I have stopped buying commerial CDs from RIAA members (and I never bought movies). If enough people realize their purchases are paying to have freedoms taken away, the problem will solve itself. If you don't like it, stop buying from RIAA members and everyone else trying to destroy fair use and the public domain. If they don't have our money, they can't try to take away our freedoms. Wake up!

In this new propsal, notice the consumer is guilty unless he can prove himself innocent. How can you do that?

Remember, the RIAA and their members are already contacting cable ISPs to get them to intimidate their users who merely connect to an online sharing service with the threat of loss of service. They have no PROOF I don't own the songs I download, or would buy them if I liked them, or would delete them if I think they sucked. So, if this bill passes, how can you or I prove we own the music we have on our computers? Bring our CD collections into court? Did you save store receipts to prove you did not steal the CDs?

Eventually, I guess it will be illegal to hear music in any way without paying for it. Will they introduce a bill requiring nanotech auditory monitors to be implanted into the ears of all Americans to turn them off when you hear unapproved music? When will this paranoia end?!

I know I have quit buying CDs from RIAA members, and encourage everyone to stop doing it so their funds will dry up and they'll leave our freedoms alone.

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