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...back page of the Harvard Salient a must-read for three years.” Douthat isn’t just a fill-in for Kristol’s specific conservative voice, Ambinder said. “It’s safe [for the Times] to choose a Bill Kristol because he won’t persuade people to see his point of view,” he said. “Ross isn’t like that. Ross is going to persuade people.” “The New York Times is giving an immensely talented...
...after all, California's biggest cash crop, responsible for $14 billion a year in sales, dwarfing the state's second largest agricultural commodity - milk and cream - which brings in $7.3 billion a year, according to the most recent USDA statistics. The state's tax collectors estimate the bill would bring in about $1.3 billion a year in much needed revenue, offsetting some of the billions of dollars in service cuts and spending reductions outlined in the recently approved state budget...
...This bill is serving an archaic fairy tale up to artists, but in reality is an authoritarian sleight of hand," says Socialist legislator Christian Paul, who adds that the music and film industry has to face the reality of the Web today. "It's a bad text with lots of problems, and which opposes performers and Internet users," says Patrick Bloche, spokesman for Socialist Party legislators in parliament...
...urgent to get out of this situation that's as dangerous for Internet users as it is dramatic for French cultural creators and industries," Albanel told parliament. The bill, she says, is needed to defend France's "cultural exception." It's "also a realistic project that of course does not claim it will completely eradicate the mass phenomenon of pirating cultural works on the Internet...
...that again. Judicial experts and consumer groups say the bill's proposed policing system will generate many legal challenges - especially regarding invasion-of-privacy issues, and the identification of IP addresses to track people who illegally download. That's especially true in a world where the most prolific pirates - hackers and computer geeks - can hide their identities behind hijacked ones. "The bill violates the principle of presumption of innocence," noted consumer group UFC Que Choisir in a statement, "because the onus would be on the Internet users to prove their good faith...