Why did you have respect for them in the first place?

I didn't have much respect to begin with. What little respect I had was based on the fact that they were a necessary evil. Without them, the record companies would have no advocates to help protect their livelihood. I have to concede that the the record companies have a right to protect their business. I just don't like the way the RIAA is going about things.

There's a difference between doing what you have to do, and being snakes in the grass. Trying to squeak their addendums into unrelated bills is bad enough (see: Works For Hire clause in the SHVA), but to take advantage of us through a rider on an antiterrorism bill? Feeding off of our collective pain, mourning, and anger? That's below low.

The article stated that they aren't going to be seeking it the way it was originally worded in the first draft. This is irrelevant. The fact that they tried at all is beneath contempt.

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Tony Fabris