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Re:Legalize It All by hjhgjtyhgdfi on Monday March 21, 2016 @04:08PM (#11331446)
CCA spent $1 million per year. Apple spent $1.24 million in lobbying in three months. Facebook spent $2.44 million in three months. Microsoft spent $11 million on lobbying per year. Google spent $19 million on lobbying per year.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/04/22/apples-lobbying-co...

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000011...

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Re:Legalize It All by dangerlibrary on Monday March 21, 2016 @04:16PM (#11331527)
CCA spent over $3 million in both 2004 and 2005, they've leveled off at $1million for the past 7 years or so.

Also, that's pretty much what I said, isn't it? Apple is about $4 million/year and CCA is at about $1 million/year? Are you quibbling about 20 vs 25%, or trying to make some other point?

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