i would think this was a joke if i didnt know better... an excerpt:
The Motion Picture Association of America said Friday intellectual-property holders should have the right to collect damages, perhaps as much as $150,000 per copyright violation, without having to prove infringement.this is nothing short of insanity, and im stunned that they would even try to make such an argument. id like to know when it happened that one of the functions of government became protecting corporate interests and their obsolete business models over and above the protection of individuals from procecution without the burdon of proof?
"Mandating such proof could thus have the pernicious effect of depriving copyright owners of a practical remedy against massive copyright infringement in many instances," MPAA attorney Marie L. van Uitert wrote Friday to the federal judge overseeing the Jammie Thomas trial.