iPod Highlighted in Heightened Battle over DMCA Rollback

as a number of major tech firms joined in support for fair-use legislation according to this Infoworld article. The legislation would allow people to make a small number of copies of copyrighted and copy-protected digital material for personal use. According to the article,

Rep. John Doolittle, a California Republican, held up an Apple Computer Inc. iPod and said technologies such as the iPod don't make sense if consumers aren't allowed to copy their CDs to the iPod.

[Dana Baggett]