Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:23:00 PDT Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120417/04502518523/revolving-door-between-mpaa-federal-government.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120417/04502518523/revolving-door-between-mpaa-federal-government.shtml Parker Higgins we learn of a graphical representation of the revolving door between the MPAA and the federal government from geke.us, purveyor of useful visuals to explain economic truths:
Not all of these are current, of course. Dan Glickman left well before Chris Dodd showed up, for example Still, it does give you an idea of why the MPAA always seemed to get its way with the government.

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]]> how-you-get-laws-passed http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20120417/04502518523 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:16:51 PST Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120107/01472317325/infographic-showing-problem-with-patents.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120107/01472317325/infographic-showing-problem-with-patents.shtml the problem with patents. It appears that much of the information in the post comes from the awesome This American Life episode on patents.

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