DC Gives Hollywood A Little Holiday Pick Me Up To Show They Care — With A Surprise SOC Ending

[Commentary] The Copyright Mafia have certainly been feeling needy recently. Maybe it's all that talk about how wonderful broadband access is — with all the awful piracy it creates — clouding out how movies made record breaking profits this year. Maybe it's because the London Times linked to studies that show that musicians (but not labels) do better in a world of file sharing. Maybe it's just the sadness of winter time and the end of a decade in which Public Knowledge managed to hold off nearly all the awful legislation the Copyright Mafia proposed. But whatever it is, Hollywood has been saying to it's friends in DC "hold me," and their DC friends have been ready to oblige.