Parkinson's drugs linked to heavy gambling [New Scientist]

Read my blog at Corante to get my opinion of this. Basically, the link is so small as to be non-existant and could easily be explained by other factors. It sounds like someone did some research that did not provide the numbers they hoped for and is holding out for something special, if only more work can be done.  4:26:44 PM    

EFF: "You could spend up to five years in prison, pay a $250,000 fine and lose your right to vote for trading a single copyrighted song if the Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act is passed by Congress." [Scripting News]

Great, let's fill up the prisons with non-violent teenagers whose only crime was to give a friend a copy of a song. The other industrialized countries have about 1 prisoner for every 1000 citizens. We have something like 1 in 143 people in prison. Over 2 million people, with 450,000 just due to the war on drugs. Mandatory sentencing for non-violent drug offenders is the main cause for the huge increase in the prison population at a time of declining crime. Looks like we need to keep finding new ways to send citizens to prison. I guess imprisoning ourselves is going to continue to be a growth industry. And, as with drugs, I am sure that if this law ever sees the light of day, it will mostly be applied to minorities. I predict that it would never be used against a senior citizen giving a copy of an old Benny Goodman song to a friend.  2:42:17 PM