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San Francisco Chronicle -  p2pnet news view Politics | Music:- Senator Orrin ‘Terminator’ Hatch is not only one of Hollywood’s most favoured sons, he also fancies himself as a song-writer.

Like, really fancies himself.

He’s fronted some of the entertainment industry’s most flagrant attempts to stomp P2P and drag file-sharers through the mud, his late and unlamented INDUCE Act being one of the most infamous examples, and “one of the most blatant attempts at copyright maximalization ever attempted,” said Corante.

And it’s a little-known fact that Hatch was the man who came up with the original Three Strikes and you’re Off The Net concept, except his version was a little more extreme than the one currently being touted by the entertainment cartels.

“Illegally download copyright music from the Internet once, or even twice, and you get a warning,” Wired quoted him as saying. “Do it a third time, and your computer gets destroyed.”

Uh, like destroyed?

“Damaging someone’s computer “may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights,” quoth the good senator.

He’s also infamous for making grotesque misstatements about p2p file sharing and technologies which, somehow, always seem to benefit the record labels or movie studios who have contributed so handsomely to his political coffers.

Now, on his musical career, he’s come up with a ‘hip-hop’ Hanukkah song for Tablet Magazine.

No joke.

“25 Days of Weird Christmas,” says a San Francisco Chronicle headline. “A Hip Hop Hanukkah song by the Senior Senator from Utah!”

Where hip-hop comes into it is anyone’s guess.

BUT —- we can pin down hip-heist.

“Souls Along the Way, ‘the love song Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch wrote for political rival Sen. Ted Kennedy and his wife a few years ago, has found its way to Hollywood in the box office hit Ocean’s 12′,” said the Salt Lake Tribune in a 2004 post which has since vanished from the net.

“Sadly, the song didn’t make the soundtrack CD to the ‘hip heist thriller,’ but Hatch who, according to the report, ‘has earned thousands of dollars in royalties as he hobnobs with stars and manages to per suade some well-known artists to perform his works’ is well chuffed anyway,” said p2pnet, adding >>>

His song is heard in the background as Las Vegas casino boss Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), ‘crashes a wedding party to demand the gang of crooks repay his stolen loot,’ says the Tribune write-up, going on:

‘In a subliminal reference to Hatch, the groom at the wedding is Virgil Malloy (Casey Affleck), one of the ‘Mormon Malloy’ brothers from Utah.’

Utah composer and former Springdale Mayor Phillip Bimstein is quoted as saying, “I thought it was a little endearing that here was one of the most powerful senators in the United States and yet he’s still promoting himself in the same way any songwriter would.”

Eight Days of Hanukkah from Tablet Magazine on Vimeo.

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Corante – INDUCE Act is Free Speech Killer, June 16, 2004
Wired – Hatch Wants to Fry Traders’ PCs, June 18, 2003
Tablet Magazine – ‘Eight Days of Hanukkah’, December 8, 2009
San Francisco Chronicle – 25 Days of Weird Christmas. A Hip Hop Hanukkah song, December 10, 2009
p2pnet – Orrin Hatch song in Ocean’s 12, December 21, 2004

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