Boucher: Induce Act faces 'knockout punch'

Over at Larry Lessig's blog, Rep. Rick Boucher posted these comments today in response to a comment I posted last night on a new legal regime for music file sharing:

Thanks to JD Lasika [well, close enough] for the favorable reference to the DMCRA, HR 107. The bill has gained traction in the House. It’s cosponsors include several full committee chairmen, including the chairman of the committee to which it has been referred. It has support from a broad cross-section of the technology and public interest community. My prediction is that the bill or a close relative of it will become law. The maturation process may take another several years, but we will get there.

I think you can count on Congress doing nothing regarding P2P, at least for the near term. The upraising of tech community opposition to the Induce Act has had an effect, and even though it has impressive Senate sponsorship, I think it is on life support and will be put to rest as gracefully as its sponsors can manage. I don’t want to encourage anyone to let their guard down because it can always surface again in an amendment of another copyright bill or in a conference committee, but at the moment, I think the tech community is winning. This is, in fact, the time to redouble the effort to defeat it , and a knockout punch is now possible.

Emphasis added. This is great news and is due in no small part to the publicity focused on the act by bloggers like Ernest Miller, the EFF, and other watchdogs.