Last week, The Washington Post ran a story about Senator John McCain's return to the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation. Commerce Power Shift Could Shake Up Piracy, Broadband Debates speculates how the change from media puppet Fritz Hollings to McCain could affect broadband policy, telecom deregulation, and copyright law. While I agree that it's too difficult to predict how these issues will fare under McCain, I do think fair use rights stand a better chance at McCain-governed hearings than in any session Hollings ever controlled.

This article has been making the rounds of the blogosphere and it's definitely worth your read, but I haven't seen anyone highlight my favorite quote from it yet, so here it is for posterity.

"I never want to underestimate the (MPAA's) ability to lobby these issues," Miller said. "If Jack Valenti had been around at the time of Gutenberg he would have organized the monks to come and burn down the printing press." - Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America