It's no surprise that much legislation is written by interested parties like special interest lobbyists. What is a surprise is when a special interest like Big Content can dictate policy to a state's top law enforcement officer.
Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing fame has a Wired piece this morning suggesting that California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is using a peer-to-fear talking points memo supplied by the Motion Picture Association of America. The tip-off? A smoking MS Word document tellingly marked with MPAA metadata and invective.Maybe it's not such a surprise after all; Enron wrote this administration's energy policy, the HMOs exert a huge influence over HHS's administration of Medicare and Medicaid, the pharmaceutical companies use the FDA to scare the sick away from cheap imported Canadian medicine, and Big Content practically wrote the DMCA.
