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Washington’s medieval policies on stem-cell research are one reason why many of the world’s best bioscientists are ending up in Singapore rather than the States. Alluding to those researchers, a headline in the August issue of Wired even reads: “Singapore Wants You!” The man who cloned Dolly has already moved to Singapore.

Now apply this concept to the INDUCE debate over technologies such as P2P. Will the world’s best tech brains stop coming to the United States because Hollywood greedsters dictate our copyright laws? Will they go to Singapore instead? I’m not sure about Singapore, given P2P’s inherent threat to the top-down pols everywhere, not just Hollywood. But I can envision another country somewhere being clueful enough to exploit the inanities of Senators Hatch and likeminded fools and greedsters.”Come here!” this country might say. “We’ll give you some true ‘freedom to innovate.’” U.S. techies may or may not take up the offer, but they’ll be badly tempted, considering the dire effects that an unmitigated INDUCE could have on our tech community. And other countries’ best brains just might to skip us. Who needs thuggish lawyers and bought pols and laws to disrupt their research?

Meanwhile, you can join more than 30,000 people who have already sent letters to Congress to express their nausea over INUDCE-tyle legislation.

Will John Edwards, on the copyright-related Judiciary Committee, speak up on INDUCE despite the millions that the Kerry-Edwards campaign already has raked in from Hollywood? I’m skeptical but would love to be proven wrong. 

 
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