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The self-appointed innovators and their advocates who are pushing the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are indeed inventive in one key regard -- their propaganda achieves new heights of doublespeak.  Or perhaps the irony is lost on Tom Feeney as he cries “Innovation!'” in his efforts to enact policy that would undermine the greatest engine of creation humanity has ever known: the Internet.

The entertainment industry's supposed creatives are reprising an awfully familiar role as they push PIPA:  Remember when "home taping was killing music" at the dawn of the cassette recorder era?  Rather than catch up with the times, these lumbering dinosaurs want to drag the rest of us back into prehistory -- Feeney once even advocated withholding federal funding from universities whose students download copyrighted content.

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