Jaded Times

$1.92 Million?  That’s a lot for some Rihanna and a coupl’a Britneys, but that’s the judgment that has been handed down to Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the first guilty verdict in a case against a user of file-sharing services to go to court.  Excessive?  Yeah, maybe a little.  But whatever, filesharing is filesharing, loving it and claiming how it “should” be doesn’t make it any more or less legal.

The part that concerns me:

The Obama administration told a federal judge Friday the $1.92 million jury verdict against a Minnesota woman for sharing 24 music tracks on Kazaa was constitutionally sound, despite defense claims it was unconstitutionally excessive.

Now I’m no constitutional lawyer or anything, but I’m pretty sure the process of law works in the exact opposite direction.

The below video may appeal to me more because of my (oh so useful!) degree in folklore, but it’s still Jon Stewart, still funny, and still a great representation of what Congressmen do to earn their six figure salaries and lifetime pensions…

Chuck Grassley’s Sir Taxalot

Unfortunately, Senor W. T. Fayta saw his shadow, so we have eight more weeks of ridiculous partisan bitchery to deal with.