Originally posted 2007-01-14 19:43:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
The only reason the new Senate bill clamping down on home recording isn’t completely awful is that it’s probably technologically irrelevant. But it’s still pretty awful. Hat tip to Dean.
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