Information Week has an article about the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act, a bill sponsored by Rick Boucher (D-Va) that seems to attempt to shift the balance in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act back towards the consumer and user. Of course Hollywood and the recording industries are crying foul, they claim this just gives hackers license to break through their copyright protection schemes. It seems that their opinion is in the digital age since we can't strike a balance on fair use, we should just throw the concept out the window. That way they can effectively have permanent copyrights without having to push for legislation that explicitly says so (unlike the Copyright Term Extension Act, which just does so in practice).