It slices, it dices, it puts you in jail for skipping a commercial

The lame ducks appear to be quacking up a storm :
Wired has an article on the Intellectual Property Protection Act (HR2391), a bill collection, which the lame duck session in the Senate is trying to pass. The bill does such things as get rid of “fair use”, define a fine and/or 3 years imprisonment for bring a video camera into a theater, and to top it off the language of the bill is apparently vague enough that it would call into question the legality of Apple’s Itunes service.

You can reach your senator here.

And here is a picture of my senators with the RIAA representative.