Tim O’Reilly joins the technology versus Hollywood debate
O’Reilly Network article

“I wanted to weigh in from two perspectives. First, as the CEO of one of the country’s largest and most successful computer book publishers, I am in a unique position to see both sides of this issue. My business is content and copyright, just like Disney’s, but my subject matter is technology. And I want to go on record as saying unequivocally that the Silicon Valley perspective on this issue has far more substance to it than the Hollywood/Nashville/New York version. The legislation currently being explored in the Senate Judiciary Committee, to require computer makers to build copy-protection into its products, is extremely ill-conceived. ”