A bipartisan bill to restore some of the fair use protections gutted by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is meeting with predictable amounts of bullshit and distortion from the always-clueless RIAA. Check it out. The DMCA is the law that makes it illegal to circumvent any copy protection scheme for any reason. Under it, ripping a copy-protected CD you bought so you can listen to it on your iPod is a criminal act. It’s a disaster for fair use, and desperately needs to be repealed (and the Consumer Electronics Association agrees).