File-sharing Republican blogger tackles Hollywood Hatch

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A US politician challenging the pro-Hollywood Utah Senator Orrin Hatch is supporting file-sharing as a means to promote business innovation and keep the internet free. Republican challenger Steve Urquhart is taking a pro-small business and creative commons stance against Hatch, arguing that hobbling file-sharing technology through government legislation, that is enforced through the courts, is bad for business. Urquhart is running for the GOP seat against Hatch in 2006. Urquhart has talked out against Hatch’s proposed Induce Act, a bill that world make “the intentional inducement of copyright infringement” an offense. He is also critical of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), backed by Hatch - and others - and signed into law. Urquhart, whose campaign seeks donations from internet users, not just those living and voting in his native land of Utah, believes Hatch’s legislation plays into the hands of big, corporate media interests and helps stifle small business. “Senator Hatch has shown that he doesn’t understand the internet, or at least, he does not welcome the kind of democratizing tool it can be,” Urquhart told The Register. “File-sharing technology is value-neutral and it’s amazing. The technology should be lauded. Like most good things, though, it can be used in inappropriate ways. In those cases, the actions, not the technology should be discouraged,” he said. Read the Rest:

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I'll definitely vote for Steve Urquhart. He seems to have a clear understanding of technology. I really like the fact that he is pro small business, since I'm self employed myself. He is right on target when he says that there are good applications for file sharing technology. I should find his site and make donations. I hope he lives up to what he says.

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finnally a politition with the right ideas. im sick and tired of the big-buisness-rules-all way of thinking.

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Oh, if I only lived in Utah. That might be the first time I ever voted for a Republican! :o

Seriously though, more power to the man. I'd have to look over his full stated agenda and plan, since there are other things a senator does besides prevent unethical copyright. But definitely a selling point that is. I myself am sick of the "big-business-but-call-it-small-business" way of thinking. Sadly over here we've got that for an indefinite amount of time, or at least until the real estate pyramid scheme collapses.