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The Circuit Court of Appeals Trims the RIAA's DMCA Wings (Groklaw)The Circuit Court of Appeals Trims the RIAA's DMCA Wings (Groklaw)Posted Dec 22, 2003 9:35 UTC (Mon) by biolo (subscriber, #1731)In reply to: The Circuit Court of Appeals Trims the RIAA's DMCA Wings (Groklaw) by ccchips Parent article: The Circuit Court of Appeals Trims the RIAA's DMCA Wings (Groklaw) I would love to see your sources on the comment about criminalising tobacco posession and ownership in England. I am a Brit, living in Britain (but I'm not English, the two are not one and the same thing), and I have never heard of this proposal. I think if this Government were to even consider doing this it would make them unelectable, and there is a re-election coming up in the not too distant future. Far too many people in this country still smoke for them to try this. They continue to put up the taxation on tobacco, but even that causes an outcry every time. Additionally, the government makes far too much money on the tax from tobacco and the tobacco industry to try this one. I would think California is more likely to ban tobacco before the UK does. As to your other comment, I don't think anyone put it more clearly than Pastor Martin Niemöller. Whilst he was obviously speaking about a situation far more serious than this, and not to downplay the horrors of Nazi Germany, the long term effects are just as dangerous, The world, led by the West, is riding a downward slope to a totalitarian regime, only this time it is the interests of big commerce rather than fundamentalism that is the driving force. I honestly don't think it will ever get that bad as sooner or later the populace is bound to wake up to the realities, but I do worry that by the time they do we will have gone too far down the slope for things to be rectified without some major upheavals. First they came for the Jews Then they came for the communists Then they came for the trade unionists Then they came for me —
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