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Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top Justice post
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... The soon-to-be-appointees: Tom Perrelli for associate attorney general and David Ogden for deputy attorney general. Campaign rhetoric aside, this should be no surprise. Obama's selection of Joe Biden as vice president showed that the presidential hopeful was comfortable with someone with firmly pro-RIAA views. Biden urged the criminal prosecutions of copyright-infringing peer-to-peer users and tried to create a new federal felony involving playing unauthorized music. Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10133425-38.html Marvelous. First a heap of Reagan Republicans ...

RIAA’s Favorite Lawyer Nominated For A Top Justice Post
The Moderate Voice — Larry Lessig is pleased that president-elect Obama has chosen Elena Kagan, his dean at Harvard Law School, for solicitor general. Kagan is credited with attracting major legal scholars to Harvard, especially Cass R. Sunstein from the University of Chicago and, more recently, Lessig himself from the Stanford University Law School. But Lessig may be less pleased with some of Obama’s justice picks, says CNet’s Declan McCullagh: As president-elect, one of Obama’s first tech-related decisions has been to select the ...

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The Agitator — Why does Tanzania have so many Albinos? This is just surreal. Like a reality TV show gone terribly wrong(er). I’d love to see the book proposal the author submitted to publishers for this. “So it’s sort of a niche market…” Oakland erupts over the BART shooting. Okay, so South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is definitely running for president. And the GOP would be stupid not to nominate him. Obama picks top RIAA lawyer for number two slot at DOJ. Won’t somebody give Alberto ...

Obama Honeymoon Over for Techies
Politics Daily — Filed under: Obama AdministrationThe CNET article puts it succinctly: As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama won applause from legal adversaries of the recording industry. Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, the doyen of the "free culture" movement, endorsed the Illinois senator, as did Google CEO Eric Schmidt and even the Pirate Party. That was then. As president-elect, one of Obama's first tech-related decisions has been to select the Recording Industry Association of ...