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> US "hackers" see that they can influence politics.

Err... the ones pushing this through are VC's, who are, pretty much by definition, a fairly well to do group. Closer to hackers than, say, Warren Buffet, probably, but still, not quite the same thing.

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I was going to say... watching the financial and power elite push through a pet bill is hardly that inspirational.

Let's see hackers push through some real patent or copyright reform before we start passing around the cigars.

That's awesome, getting downvoted and commented on for the one word I put inside quotation marks. I was referring to hackers as in Hacker News i.e. the "startup community". Also it's pretty much impossible to do anything political, especially in the US, without the help of influential people. I could tell you the details of how it's done over here, but something tells me you're not interested.

I didn't downvote you, and I commented because, well, I think you were to some degree wrong (but not wrong in a bad, downvotable way, just incorrect). The "startup community" is not what is driving this bill, it's the VC's.

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