More good news

Professor Felten writes that Texas’ Super-DMCA has been put to sleep:

Louis Trager at the Washington Internet Daily reports that the Texas Super-DMCA bill appears to be dead, as this year’s legislative session ended without any action on the bill.

But cautions that it may yet rise from the grave:

Apparently MPAA will be patient, in the hope that opponents will tire of the struggle, or maybe in the hope of finding new opportunities to introduce stealth bills. That may be MPAA‘s best hope, since the bills have fared poorly wherever open debate on their merits has been allowed.

Buffy is unemployed now—maybe we can get her on the job.

But seriously, folks, this is a very heartening development. The fact that these laws perish when exposed to the light of day indicates that they may be vulnerable to holy water and the stake, as well. No, I mean, it indicates that the hypothesis that these laws were passed in ignorance, not with malicious intent, is likely true; and that, therefore, constituent pressure may keep them from passing, or even get them rolled back where they already have passed.

Like I like to say, write your rep.

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