Firstly, saw this link on Boing Boing. It contains the classic sentence (also quoted on Boing Boing):
“Our law enforcement resources are seriously misaligned,” NBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton said. “If you add up all the various kinds of property crimes in this country, everything from theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, all of it, it costs the country $16 billion a year. But intellectual property crime runs to hundreds of billions [of dollars] a year.”
And i think this must deserve some sort of award for most perverse name for an anti-piracy campaign ever:
Cotton is spearheading the new effort, christened the “Campaign to Protect America,” as chairman of the newly formed Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy.
Protect America?! It occurs to me he missed a perfect opportunity to suggest that instead of wasting money in Iraq troops should be pulled out and sent onto the streets of America to protect America from pirates. Probably didn't want to piss off Bush.
And secondly this story:
Contenders for the Labour deputy leader job have dismissed concerns that the party has been lurching to the left.Concerns? Whose concerned? Aren't we all to busy wondering how far right they're going to manage to go?
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