The voting function on bills here on WashingtonWatch.com is unscientific, and that sometimes drives people around the bend. But when a popular site sends a lot of traffic with one point of view to a particular bill, the voting gets really unscientific, at least in the sense of being lopsided. That drives me around the bend (a little ways), because no bill gets introduced without any basis.

So it has gone with S. 3325, the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008. Mike Masnick of TechDirt (whom I described earlier as a “tech-business eminence”) yesterday registered his objections to the bill.

“[T]here’s simply no logical explanation for why the FBI should be propping up the obsolete business model of an industry that refuses to change with the market,” he says. His is a popular blog, and a lot of people sharing his views clicked on the voting widget you see below which he put on his site. (Thank you, Mike.)

Well, there are explanations for the introduction of this bill and its advancement out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. We need to hear them! Come forward, intellectual property proponents. Balance out the voting. But more importantly, explain in the comments or the wiki article about the bill why it’s a good thing. We need to hear all sides!

Here’s the current (at this writing, lopsided) vote on S. 3325, the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008. Click to vote, comment, learn more, or edit the wiki article about the bill.