Tech Backs Off Support for Boucher Bill

Related link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51958-2003Jan13.html

The Post reports today that two major tech industry associations are ready to enter an alliance with the recording industry (sort of like the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1941) to oppose the infamous Hollings bill. The agreement makes it less likely there will be government mandates to control computers and consumer electronics, but it puts tech in the position of firmly backing DMCA. Efforts like Rep. Rick Boucher's, which I reported on yesterday, are certainly undercut by the big technology companies compromise with RIAA.

What do you think of technology's alliance with record companies? Is it more important to fix DMCA or stop Hollings?