Congratulations: Kazaa the most downloaded program on the web

Dear Mr. Congressman:

I'd like to call the following news item to your attention from CNN.com:

As of late Thursday, the Kazaa Media Desktop application — a file-sharing software that has drawn the wrath of the music industry by enabling its users to swap songs for free — had been downloaded 229,150,955 times, as measured by Download.com, which is owned by CNET Networks Inc.

A Sharman spokeswoman said Kazaa has been receiving an average of 366,000 downloads per day, whereas the ICQ application has been receiving an average of 50,000 downloads per day, as measured by Download.com.

You and your colleagues have been in the back pocket of the RIAA and other such suckheads who wish to trample on our free exchange of information. This is bad because they are mostly plain WRONG. Nonetheless, they have lots of money to give to your campaigns. As we know, money talks and bullshit walks.

However, notice 230 million downloads. How badly do you want to be on the wrong side of this number? All the campaign donations in the world won't do you squat good if 230 million people are cheesed off with you come election time.

Hows about you consider helping to bring some equity back into the copyright law before we put you out of office, and make you go looking for a real job?

Article Author: Al Barger

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