If you're a Republican politician, you may be concerned that your party's got an image problem. A lot of people think you're looking out for your corporate fatcat buddies while you stick it to the working man. How can you show the voters that you will take on big business for the sake of Joe Sixpack, without alienating your big contributors? Easy: take on the RIAA.
The right-wing ideologues at Insight (sister magazine to the Moonie-run Washington Times) point out that the GOP has a nearly perfect opportunity to look like the good guy while painting the Democrats as the party that's selling your privacy to Big Content.
A lot of the Republican activists...said "Why, in the name of God, should we be breaking our butts doing things that are politically unpopular to bail out Democrat-supporting industries who have never done a thing for us?"
Makes me wonder how Fox News will report this issue. News Corp supremo Peter Chernin has been one of the more strident campaigners for giving Big Content extra-judicial vigilante powers to police their interpretation of copyright.
A tip o' the hat to Pho lister Kevin Doran for pointing out the article.
