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It is all about agenda. The entertainment, music and publishing industries simply have no interest in changing the way they do business in the digital age, hence the need to "control" what customers do online. Do it all our way or not at all and the SOPA bill is proof of this. If only they spent the millions they spend on copyright trolls and buying off US senators on new business models.

No, they continue to lie, falsify survey findings to reflect their point of view and manipulate the process of government to justify their anachronistic businesses.

Meanwhile governments need to spend funds on combating spam, making the fines higher, making gaol sentences higher, so they reinforce the will of the people they claim to represent.

They have no interest in attempting to reduce spam or unsolicited email, which is pure invasion of privacy, often a thinly coated attempt at phishing regardless. I firmly believe some companies sell on private details of customers to the highest bidder.

I use mailwasher pro at home, deleting and bouncing unwanted emails directly from my ISP's server in order to make my email address less "inviting" It does work and for several months at a time I get little if no spam at all. Then suddenly it ramps up again and I need to keep the process running again. Coincidence. Nope. Someone has sold my private info again.

The sad thing is that nothing is going to change.