Republican staffer who was fired for copyright memo talks to Ars Technica

My takeaway from all this was that the RSC (Republican Study Committee) is somewhat disorganized, not that there is any political shift occurring. I think the tech world turned it into a bigger news story than it should have been because we wanted to believe a shift was occurring.<p>That said, I do think the younger, more tech-savvy generation of Derek Khanna is much more informed and critical of copyright issues than politicians. A shift will eventually occur.

My takeaway is that from here on out, nobody at the Republican Study Committee is going to publish anything but party propaganda for fear of losing their job.

The Republican Party isn't stupid, it's inept. It's slogans are rooted in political battles that took place 80 years ago. Do young folk even care about "small government"? No, we care about "good government" and "innovation". Dear Mr. Romney, you are pitching to the anti-Roosevelt faction of the country and it is rapidly shrinking.<p>If the GOP pushed an "innovation" platform, they would be much better suited for the next 50 years of politics (copyright reform, low regulation, low taxes, greater skilled immigration).<p>Of course, like 0 GOP people read Hacker News, so I should be leaving this comment elsewhere.

At this point, the Republican party probably should reexamine its relationship with Big Media. It isn't very well supported at the rank-and-file level (not that the Speaker seems to care about them), and they tend to support the Democrats more. Derek Khanna's memo was pretty sane. There have been "Reps. / Senators from Disney" of both parties, but it would be a good thing for the Republicans to get out of that mold.

Direct link to PDF of report: <a href="http://marylandpirates.com/wp-content/uploads/rsc_policy_brief_--_three_myths_about_copyright_law_and_where_to_start_to_fix_it_--_november_16_2012.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://marylandpirates.com/wp-content/uploads/rsc_policy_bri...</a>

The article is a bit disingenuous. Both sides are not the same, but both do tend to cater to the big media companies pretty readily.