Lawrence Lessig sends us to timeout

Lawrence Lessig has chastised all of us for paying too much attention to fighting the Induce Act while plenty of other bad news copyright bills have been passed this year. Ever the cynic (aren't we all), Lessig suggests that perhaps the Induce Act is a "weapon of mass distraction" meant to preoccupy copyfighters while the real action is moving through Congress one small change at a time. He specifically points to HR 4077, which includes the PIRATE Act, the ART Act, and the Family Movie Act among other laws, none of which are public domain friendly.

Luckily, as another recent post here points out, McCain has stalled out HR 4077 as well.