Rights? You ain't Got No Stinking Rights (Digitally)

Senators aim to restrict Net, satellite radio recording | Tech News on ZDNet: "Satellite and Internet radio services would be required to restrict listeners' ability to record and play back individual songs, under new legislation introduced this week in the U.S. Senate.

The rules are embedded in a copyright bill called the Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act, or Perform Act, which was reintroduced Thursday by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Joseph Biden (D-Del.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). They have pitched the proposal, which first emerged in an earlier version last spring, as a means to level the playing field among 'radio-like services' available via cable, satellite and the Internet."

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Somehow that word digital means that all prior established law gets tossed?
The right to record broadcasts for personal was a hard fought and well established law but lobbyists and corporations have subverted the law by making something nonsensical of the word digital and we the over stressed public concerned with increasing fights to preserve pricavy in a post 9/11 world and an out of control situation in the middle east are seemingly unable to stop it.

This is the theft of rights, not the rights of the copyright holders they have all the rights they need to persue and prosecute copyright theft nothing digital took those rights away.
No the digital excuse is robing the American citizen of his right to the airwaves (digital is just a layer over analog) that he owns, not the broadcaster.

Worse these harassment laws that are created as digital protection serve more to supress creation and innovation than they do to encourage it, they hurt the entire country and make honest people into criminals when they try to assert their actual rights and not observe laws created with criminal intent.

My technological answer?
A hearing aid that has a built in recorder, if I can hear it and my brain can record it, then I have the right to record anything my ear can hear on a device.
Existing analog copyright law is sufficient to protect the limited rights of content creators and owners.
This is criminal behavior in the halls of Congress.