# Draconian copyright crackdown provisions are included in the omnibus stimulus bill which contains a lot more than just stimulus

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 22, 2020, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/draconian-copyright-crackdown-provisions-are-included-in-the-omnibus-stimulus-bill-which-contains-a-lot-more-than-just-stimulus/928599 "2020-12-22T05:50:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/draconian-copyright-crackdown-provisions-are-included-in-the-omnibus-stimulus-bill-which-contains-a-lot-more-than-just-stimulus/928599/41 "2020-12-23T16:18:02Z")

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What is particularly egregious is when Congress basically jacks up a bill title and drives a whole new bill under it. Some bill that starts in the House as **School Lunch Program for Starving Children in Appalachia** gets amended and hacked up so much that it arrives at the Senate with nothing left but paying for a dam on a river in Wyoming – but it still has the same title.

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**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/draconian-copyright-crackdown-provisions-are-included-in-the-omnibus-stimulus-bill-which-contains-a-lot-more-than-just-stimulus/928599/42 "2020-12-23T16:31:53Z")

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Hip hip for the pork barrel buffet. What a crock!

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/draconian-copyright-crackdown-provisions-are-included-in-the-omnibus-stimulus-bill-which-contains-a-lot-more-than-just-stimulus/928599/43 "2020-12-23T16:48:40Z")

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> [@mhendo](#):
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> I’m still not sure that the way they’ve done it is a good idea.

That’s fair enough and it’s a debatable point. I won’t pretend that I can say for sure that the structure they’re written is the best, or good. But I argue that it’s _not_ a matter of “Hollywood using its political capital to crush the common interest.” I think, though, at this point then we’re just arguing about what’s better. It’s no longer an issue of “Congress imposing draconian copyright crackdown provisions.”

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