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When short-sighted committees are charged with drafting policy on policing copyright, specifically on the intertubes, we should not be at all surprised to read text like this. The long & short of it is: if you are even accused of infringement, you can be summarily booted from the web by your ISP. No investigation, no trial, no chance. No more intertubes for you. Or your family. I can’t imagine anyone coming up with language that would convince me this sort of blind legislation can do anyone any good except the RIAA & MPAA lobbies. Yay. Democracy inaction.

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halloween in the village '09

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What might have been an impressive photographic foray into the heart of craziness of Halloween in the Village… got rained out. One does not take $3300 worth of camera out in the weather casually. So under the shelter of Lee’s umbrella (Suz was very kind to share) I snapped a bunch of frames at the streams of costumed freaks in retreat. We didn’t get to actually see the parade with our own eyes, but we never really expected to. It’s a pretty major thing, and we didn’t even hook up til 8 or so. From what I’ve seen since on TV, the rain didn’t affect the masses along 5th– still thousands strong. It’s not a cold night. Just wet. So everybody put on a good show.

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Next year, we’ll participate. This year, I was home by 9:30 and very happy to peel off the drenched layers and warm up. Though I would not have objected to another look at Jessica Rabbit. rowr.

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