Via IPackets, IPac‘s newsletter had this about their ‘Your Senator Needs an iPod’ campaign:

~ iPods Galore

A year ago, IPac launched the “Your Senator Needs an iPod”
campaign to educate legislators about the value of balanced
information policy (IP). Supporters like you helped raise enough
money to send free culture-laden iPods to over a dozen Senators,
and the effort was covered throughout the print and web media. So
thank you for all of that!

We’ve also got plans for round two. Since some of the Senate
campaigns returned their iPods (despite the clear legality of our
contributions), we’ve got some extra stock hanging out at IPac
HQ. Congress changed hands — and committee chairs — in
November, so we’ll be sending some of those iPods to legislators
on the reconfigured IP-related committees. We’ll be auctioning
Senator John Kerry’s iPod on eBay to raise more money for work on the
next election. And we’ll also be giving some to the winners of a
YouTube video contest that will be announced in the spring.**

You can bid on John Kerry’s IPod — or encourage your iced-out
friends to do so — right here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120104777211

** If you donated to the “iPods for Congress” campaign and *don’t*
want your iPod being used in the contest or the auction, just send
us a note at info@ipaction.org with “iPod Funds” in the subject.

So I’m sure I’m not the first one to suggest this, but in light of the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property, which had some very favourable bits in it for free culture / open content issues, should we be sending MPs iPods on this side of the pond?

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