Dethrone Marybeth Peters
Marybeth Peters is our nation's "copyright czar," and over the years has tended to side with the big copyright firms over and over again, as if they need her special protection. It's not entirely clear why this big, successful industry needs increasing government protection, rather than learning how to adapt to a changing marketplace on its own (you know, like most other industries), but that's the way it is. In a recent talk, Peters repeated a familiar stance that the DMCA is a good law because it adds to "copyright owners' quiver of arrows to defend themselves." ....
The article actually offers one suggestion as to why: Peters is a self-declared "Luddite" and admits that she doesn't even have a computer at home. In other words, one of the people most responsible for setting up the rules that impact copyright in a new digital age has almost no clue how the market is changing thanks to new technologies.
Yet another example of the government putting someone in charge of something they know nothing about. It's absurd to think that people who know nothing about technology are going to make reasonable decisions about it.