Seth Johnson points out that two senators, on this sad day for that institution, “are starting to show some truly helpful cluefulness” :

“Digital media simply shouldn’t be more restricted than other copyrighted items,” [Ron] Wyden [D-Oregon] said. “Digital technology is a great step forward, and it would be a shame to take a big step backward on consumers’ rights when it comes to using this material.”

He and Chris Cox (R-Calif) are sponsoring a bill to make this idea all legal and everything.

(For the record, my wife and I went door-to-door a couple of times for Wyden during his first political campaign. We thus feel, in a Stallman “Gnu Linux” sort of way, that the bill really ought to be referred to as the Wyden-Cox-Weinberger-Geller Law.)

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