To the Hirelings in Congress...

(My ''input'' to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding Protecting Creative Works in a Digital Age - (Should that have been ''Protecting Digital Works in a Creative Age''?) - anyway, my "input" seems, somehow, not to have been put in, although I followed the instructions, used full real name and other contact information. For the record...)

Q. What is at stake for Content Creators, Providers and Users?

A. What is at stake? Let's first question the question: Why should the free and liberal play of our living intellect and imagination upon previously created works of intellect, imagination and aesthetic creation cause anything to be "at stake"?

The only stake, it seems, is the one put there by the industrial parasites who, barren of fertile genius themselves, have arrogated to themselves the role, formerly belonging to nature, man and god, of ownership of the works of the human mind and heart.

The only stake I can possibly imagine for these pornographic middlemen of the soul is the one the Internet has locked, loaded, and aimed at the drywell of their hearts. Will someone in this crowded theater please say, "Fire"?

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