Gray Davis Panders To Entertainment Industry
from the trying-to-please-everyone-with-bad-bills dept
As California’s Governor (for now) Gray Davis fights to keep his job in the upcoming recall election, it seems he’s suddenly signing some very bad legislation to pander to various constituents. First, he signed the anti-spam bill that goes too far. Now, he’s trying to make the entertainment industry happy by signing some “Hollywood friendly” laws concerning digital music and movies. The first puts an RIAA member on the state task force looking into “high tech theft”. The task force will now add file sharing to the crimes they will spend tax payer money fighting. That’s right – not only will the RIAA help put you in jail for listening to music, they now get to use your own taxpayer money to put you there. The second law makes using a video camera in a movie theater a misdemeanor punishable by up to one-year in jail. Considering the fact that most “pirated” films aren’t coming from people in movie theaters, this will do nothing to actually stop movie copying. However, it will throw a few more people in jail (more taxpayer money) for longer than plenty of real criminals will spend in jail.
Comments on “Gray Davis Panders To Entertainment Industry”
Ol' Gov. Davis
Mike, I think you wrote this one up before you had your coffee this morning. Davis doesn’t “pass” laws, he signs the ones the state legislature passes. Blame them first.
He -does- appoint people to commissions, though. Putting an RIAA fox among the chickens is bad policy and he should be called down for this one.
Re: Ol' Gov. Davis
Whoops. You’re right (though, I don’t drink coffee). I did mean “signed”. Fixing now.
Re: Re: No Coffee?!
How do you function? And you won’t be able to take this joke personality test based on what you drink at Starbucks (okay, this probably already made the rounds months ago, but I just got it)
http://www.buttafly.com/starbucks/index.php
last time I checked...
…Gray Davis and Hollywood inhabit the same state.
So, duh, of course he panders to a multi-billion dollar industray that litterlay employs 100s of thouands of people. The second a politician in California doesn’t respect Hollywood, they will either be shot or defeated.
Jesus christ… how fscking stupid do you have to be to be shocked or outraged by this?
This is to be assumed… just like the existance of fundamental Newtonian forces.