Senate May Ram Copyright Bill

Wired News: Senate May Ram Copyright Bill

This is a big problem. the Intellectual Property Protection Act is several bills cobbled together by the recording industry that is another step toward eliminating consumers "fair use" of copyrighted material.

In particular, I'm upset that it allows consumers to

"permit people to use technology to skip objectionable content -- like a gory or sexually explicit scene -- in films, a right that consumers already have. However, under the proposed law, skipping any commercials or promotional announcements would be prohibited."

What's up with this? Well, under Fair Use, which is an existing law and right, we can skip anything we want - objectionable material, commercials, anything. They are eliminating our right to skip commercials and the wording indicates that the bill is GRANTING us the right to skip objectionable material.