Joe Biden has found a new way of showing how to be a corporate douchebag and hurt my quality of life

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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6149915.html

Senators aim to restrict Net, satellite radio recording
Music industry backs the effort, but digital rights groups say it would erode users' music-listening freedoms.

Satellite and Internet radio services would be required to restrict listeners' ability to record and play back individual songs, under new legislation introduced this week in the U.S. Senate.

The rules are embedded in a copyright bill called the Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act, or Perform Act, which was reintroduced Thursday by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Joseph Biden (D-Del.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). They have pitched the proposal, which first emerged in an earlier version last spring, as a means to level the playing field among "radio-like services" available via cable, satellite and the Internet.... http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6149915.html
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Sirius wouldn't really be worth it for me if I couldn't use the Stiletto I already paid for to record shows and music and listen to it at my own leisure. I'm so glad that sleazy Imus-kiss-ass Biden is gonna go down in flames as badly as he is from Obama or Clark in the Dem nomination.