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Tic Tac wrote:

rp_photo wrote: The movie industry bribed (I meant lobbied) the right people in the federal government to make recording movies a federal crime.

You have to admire their long term planning though. Getting Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 into the United States Constitution was a stroke of genius by the movie industry.

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

Spelled out much more specifically than "musket and ball".

Someone just shoot me if I ever buy Google glass. That is when I know that I've jumped the shark as a human being.