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NY Times Riffs on Fritz' Hit List
Posted by Ernest Miller on Sunday, December 08 @ 08:12:12 EST Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Although Ed Felten and Freedom to Tinker has put Fritz' Hit List on hiatus for the time being, the New York Times (reg. req.) has published a similar riff based on the absurdities of Sen. Fritz Hollings' (D-Disney) CBDTPA (Big Brother, Take My Little Sister!). Clearly, ridicule is a powerful rhetorical device:
In the name of safeguarding intellectual property, recording, movie and television interests went after Napster and its ilk. Then they took aim at consumer electronics makers. Their Public Enemy No. 3 may be Mia Singletary.
To them, she is a diabolical creature, armed not with the Internet or a digital music player, but with something much more nefarious. She wields the Barbie Travel Train.
The most cunning thing about Mia may be her appearance, and the way she camouflages herself beneath the pigtails. Mia is 5, and she must be stopped.
 
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