ABCNEWS.com : China Bans MP3s: "In its latest effort to impose control over freewheeling electronic commerce, China has announced rules banning online sales of imported music and videos and excluding foreign invested Internet companies from selling any audiovisual products." Yeah, but I'll bet anything this has nothing to do with the efforts of America to enforce American copyrights in China and everything to do with the totalitarian thought control of China's people.

"It's somewhat incongruous for a bookseller to be opining on the patent system," said William T. Ellis, a partner in the Washington office of Foley & Lardner.

Or, my favorite accusation,

The Patent Office issued a terse one-paragraph response to the Bezos letter, saying, "We believe the existing patent law works very well for all technologies."

Or try this quote on:

Very perceptive, Mr. Wolmsley, except I think you can drop the word "almost".

On Monday morning, Herbert P. Wolmsley, executive director of Washington-based Intellectual Property Owners Association, began making calls to journalists, condemning the Gleick piece in the Sunday magazine for "almost calling into question the principles of the patent system as a whole."

Sorry for the slow news day... I'm making my own preparations for tommorow, though they'll likely come to nought...