Al Franken

The law stands in the way of her similarly sharing the fact that she watched the movie entitled 'The Godfather.'

The law gives people the right to have their day in court to defend their rights.

So it would be easy to say I can share.

I have some reservations about H.R. 2471.

No one reads those things.

The Video Privacy Protection Act is so important.

I think we do not need another round, but I think we--unless anyone wants to respond to a couple of observations I have here.

I want to applaud the Supreme Court for its decision in the Jones case. It was, I believe, the right result.

I think you raise a lot of great issues about this, but it seems to me to say that since the VPPA applied to what we think of as movies, movies are going to be streamed.

I just want to make that kind of clear, that to opt in to sharing a video, what movie you are watching, would be no more burdensome than just watching the movie itself.

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Thank you, Senator. And thank you, Senator Grassley.

It seems to me that either you have mandatory sentences or you have guidelines, and if you have guidelines there's going to be a difference between what judge you're before.

Thank you, Senator. Well, sir, you'll be excused now. Thank you so much. Congratulations once again.

The record will be open for a week, so if any Senators have questions for you we'll get those to you and this will be open for a week.

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