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The bill would preserve traditional "fair use" rights by allowing consumers to make copies for personal use, said a Hollings aide.

Yes, consumers would be allowed to make personal-use copies. However if making that copy requires circumventing digital rights management encryption the consumer could still be charged for violating the DMCA and/or the new proposed bill.

This is a corporate-sponsored law. Hollings didn't write it: Disney and the MPAA wrote it and bribed him to present it, just like the DMCA. I wish someone would introduce legislation requiring that any law written or heavily lobbied for by a corporate interest carry the name of the corporation in its title.

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So will a whole new bureocracy have to be created? The DVD player cops with broad search powers?