... in yesterday's Commerce hearings, two Senators altered the course of events. First MIT grad John Sununu of New Hampshire said that government mandates "always restrict innovation" and then 82-year-old Ted Stevens of Alaska talked about the iPod he'd gotten for Christmas and put the RIAA's Mitch Bainwol on the spot about whether his proposal would break Stevens' ability to move digital radio programs to his iPod and listen to them in the most convenient way (it would).There is a chance that this is the turning of the corner. Corrupt interests can get bad laws passed, but it's very much easier if the politicians don't know why they're bad. The more that lawmakers are exposed to the technology of the future, the less likely they are to unwittingly ban it.
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