Day 25 -- Biden and Leahy

Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont -- paid puppet for the media industry, sponsored the controversial S.3325 bill, aka the "PRO IP" bill.

We've covered the bill in some detail already:-

Joe Biden loves the RIAA

Incumbent Vice President, Joe Biden's anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

Biden is a close ally of Hollywood and the recording industry -- the very industries that are in-bed with the DRM vendors like Apple, to ensure DRM continues on movies and TV shows, as the battle with music is largely won by the DRM-free services like Amazon and eMusic.

As CNET reports:


Later, he signed a letter advocating the prosecution of individuals who intentionally allow mass copying from their computer over peer-to-peer networks, and even as recently as last year, he sponsored an RIAA-backed bill aimed at restricting Americans' ability to record and play back individual songs from satellite and Internet radio services.