Your Privacy vs. Business

A California bill that would have made "pretexting" illegal has been defeated thanks to lobbying by the Motion Picture Association of America. Pretexting is essentially lying to someone to persuade them into giving you their personal information. You may be wondering why in the world anyone would lobby against a law that would prevent people from being tricked into giving up their personal information. Well, the MPAA claimed it would hurt ongoing piracy investigations. That's right, it's more important that the MPAA be able to find out who is copying movies than for the privacy of citizens to be protected. What bothers me is not so much that the MPAA would be against this but that government officials would place the wants of the MPAA above the well being of their citizens. Its sick.