First the good news, a Senate companion bill to the House bill HR 2060 PeterG posted about previously now exists:
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/05/...rs_introd.html
Now the bad news, a shameless propaganda piece in Business Week by the executive director of SoundExchange (the comments are more enlightening than the article IMHO). I guess John Simson is entiled to share his view, but Business Week should have given equal space to the other side of the argument, or at least done a little investigative reporting on the claims being made.
http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...x _technology