Monday, June 27, 2005

**The Supremes call the season with a big hurrah for the ownership society**

I haven't read the decisions themselves, but the Supremes handed down some biggies today:
1) Cable television providers do not have to make available broadbandwidth to competing companies. (Yep, keep chipping away at any notion of access to the wired delivery of brain candy).
2) You can have religious symbols on courthouse property but chat up the historical, import, not its religious significance and the Supremes will look the other way. (Let's just call it a day and burn the constitution. Oh, they will probably outlaw that along with flagburning this year.)
3) Grokster bad, record companies good, musicians fucked (again), i-Tunes the future.

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