House Republicans gain my respect for twenty hours, blow it

So the House Republicans released an excellent position paper entitled "Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix It."  Those myths are as follows:

• The purpose of copyright is to compensate the creator of the content
  (It is actually "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts")
• Copyright is free market capitalism at work
  (It actually provides a guaranteed, government-instituted, government-subsidized content monopoly)
• The current copyright regime leads to the greatest innovation and productivity
  This can't be refuted in a sound bite, so read the paper.  It's quite effectively written.

Oh, except you can't read the paper in its original place provided by the United States government, because less than 24 hours after its release, the MIAA and RIAA went ballistic and demanded it be retracted.  And those freedom-loving, Hollywood-support-free Republicans! They just refused!  Oh, no, wait, they did exactly what their corporate masters told them to do - and issued an apology for having mistakenly been too open about how America could benefit, but won't.

If you actually want to know what actual research by the Republican Party came up with about copyright, you'll need to check out one of the mirrors. [here] or [here]  Because today's American government is not there to provide you with research - it's there to protect money.  From you.