On: Congress wants to extend the copyright on some sound recordings to 144 years

[darksaints]

What's crazy to me is that this legislation really only needs one person to get it there, because Congress is nothing more than a club of mutual backscratchers. Why focus on real issues when you can spend all your your time acquiring IOUs that will eventually pay off big?

[SomewhatLikely → darksaints]

And for long term issues like this you can wait around years until you have a favorable Congress to pass these kinds of legislation.