Generally the process has been: 1) Copyright owners give lots of money to members of Congress. 2) Copyright owners then redeem this patronage by getting broad Congressional support for their legislative wish-lists. 3) The technology community, and other repeat-player groups that depend on third party copyrighted materials (like libraries), fight vigorously to make minor changes to the copyright owners' wish-list. 4) Congress passes the lightly modified proposal and then, feel… [read post]