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"What these kids don't realize is that every time they pull up music and movies and make a copy, they are committing a felony under the United States code," Carter said in an interview. "If you were to prosecute someone and give them three years, I think this would act as a deterrent." [...]

Carter said making an example of a few college students could go a long way toward bringing home the message that sharing and duplicating copyrighted materials is wrong. [...] [Wired News]

I agree. Let's lock the students up right alongside Congressmen who bounce checks at the Congressional Post Office. Let's put'em in cells next to Congressmen who use public funds for their personal expenses. Let's send them on expense paid junkets to Tahiti to study international health care.

Carter is a born-and-bred jackass who served for 20 years as a state district judge in Williamson County Texas. Such a career tends to inflate one's self-worth beyond all reason, and lead to the sorts of idiotic, simplistic solutions you'd expect from someone who thinks he's Judge Roy Bean.

Just a couple of thoughts here Congressman, before you run off to lock up all your nieces and nephews. Didn't the US Code used to support the right of one human to own another? Didn't the US Code used to deny women the right to vote? Oh, and about that Texas thing... You do know Texas was settled by a bunch of people who were fleeing debts in other states, right?

I do love Texas, but we really don't need people like this. It gives the state a bad name.

Thanks to Berkeley Intellectual Property Weblog (bIPlog) for the pointer.