The INDUCE Act: a bridge too far

If you aren't alarmed by the INDUCE Act by now, you should be. Here's a great overview by CEI on why this is a bad idea. Excerpt:

The INDUCE Act is the latest in a string of fast-tracked Senate proposals designed to give major media players more "power tools" to attack downloading, duplicating, and exchanging music and video files over the Web. However, this legislation is not confined to person-to-person (P2P) file exchanges: It would affect cable, PC, PDA, satellite TV and radio, photocopying, and other technologies that allow transmission of data—and threaten the emergence of future technologies. Had such a law been in place during the 1970s, we may not have PCs, CDs, and other technologies we now take for granted.