What's exceptionally scary about these days is that the CTEA was written and put before the Senate in 2 months. It bypassed any floor rules of committee and was passed *unanimously*. It then bypassed Judiciary rules, went to the house and passed the same day.

Proponents: Disney was the largest, with the MPAA. Disney's CEO was even there for the vote.

Opponents: Some librarians.

As the Amici Curiae brief of the NYU law professors in support of the petitioner states:

"Most potential users of copyrighted works rarely appreciate that their speech will be curtailed in a generation or more by a presently enacted statutory expansion of the Copyright Act. Predictably, therefore, opposition to the CTEA was confined to a smattering of academics and librarians, whose job it is to consider remote and diffuse consequences of legislation."

We're facing ramrodded legislation with little opposition, and no opposition in the houses. The resources available to potentional judicial opposition is small compared to the resources of those fighting for greater copyright control.

The only amazing thing here is why large companies didn't figure this out before the 80s.

We need to fight, be loud, and organize. Being moderate in our response is like putting up a brick wall in the face of a swinging wrecking ball. It'll slow a bit...but just a bit. I'm amazed that "being political" is considered a radical notion by people with large public audiences. Radical is blowing yourself up. Radical is civil disobedience. Being aggressive with our political views and supporting organizations working *within the law* is not radical.