I got a call from Danny Sepulveda of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s office. He says that I have misread the Wired article that’s linked in my FoxNews piece, and that Boxer has never taken a position on digital copy-protection legislation. Well, that’s not how I read the article, but OK. He says that she would prefer a negotiated private sector agreement to legislation.
This is the first time I’ve ever gotten a call like this from a Senator’s aide, which suggests to me that Senate Democrats may be feeling some heat. Which, I think, underscores what a potent political issue this might be.
And yet the Republicans were never smart enough to take advantage with it, I presume because they couldn’t bring themselves to side against big business, even big business that’s their sworn enemy. Idiots.