Pete Ashdown Gets an Ally Against Orrin Hatch

Fire Hatch from IPac just launched.

It is tough to unseat an incumbent, but Orrin Hatch is worth the effort. Hatch is as bad as it gets when it comes to shafting the public on copyright and technology policy. This is the guy who want Hollywood's hackers to blow up computers that are used for unauthorized downloading. He championed a policy that authorizes jail time for sharing a single song on the Internet. Hatch also wrote 2004's ill-fated INDUCE Act. All of this support for Hollywood cartels might seem strange coming from a Utah Senator, but then you notice that entertainment companies have given Hatch hundreds of thousands of dollars.

IPac is the first Political Action Committee dedicated to responsible IP policy.  They are going after the giant in the field, Orrin Hatch.  He's hugely popular and Utah isn't going to throw him out of office, but this will make the race a little more fun.  In the long-term moves like this will begin to impose a cost for screwing the public domain.

(By way of disclosure, I actually was a founder and the original Treasurer, though I stepped away about a year ago.)

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