Copyright zealots: Look what happened to telemarketers
At the start the weirdos were the public-spirited. How dare anyone demand that Washington stop calls from brokers and siding sales reps from disrupting families at dinner! The special interests trotted out the standard economic arguments, and the pols fell in line, encouraged undoubtedly by campaign donations.
But guess what? Votes in the end mattered more than money. Even George Bush, hardly the nation’s leading consumerist, has joined the stampede to rein in the telemarketers. A lesson for the RIAA and other zealots in the wake of Brianna vs. the real Sopranos?
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