The point of copyright law is not to give people absolute control over everything they write. It's to compensate artists and authors for the works that they create.

What the law winds up doing is rewarding people like him for violating it. He violates it by spending too much money, and (the campaign board is) going to let him use excess money he's raised to pay the fine.

People paid Sony for music, not an invasion of their computers. Sony must right the wrong it has committed. Recalling the CD's is a beginning step in the process, but there is a whole lot more mess to clean up.

We don't expect the church to be a problem, they do this a lot so they know the law?I'm concerned that the other group will kind of go above and beyond and give the other side of the issue a bad name as well.

If Oxley had more control over that process and the timing, I just don't think we would have the law that resulted.

Last week we passed a birth-control bill. Now we are trying to pass a law to put the people to bed an hour earlier.