Hollings is just shaking the money tree for campaign contributions. This is another symbol like the V-chip. Information technology is a much bigger industry than Hollywood.
What the government (well, Hollings, McAuliffe, Gore, etc.) wants to do is to collect taxes (and redirect profits through their friends' ventures (with hefty kickbacks, you can be sure)) through information technology by demagoging for the rights of music moguls and big-time movie houses. The baby in that bathwater is "fair use," a right which has a long and distinguished precedent.
This type of thinking from those (LEFTISTS) in our government is very much akin to the restrictive interpretations on fair use applied by the bought-and-paid-for Lefist jurist in California who ruled against FreeRepublic's reposting of articles from the LAT, WP, and NYT. She refused to allow FR's lawyers even to bring up fair use in argumentation.
Old-style music label moguls and incredibly powerful movie houses who buy up politicians left and (a few) right are not not the only oases of talent and content. Indeed, particularly music moguls have estranged legitimate talent for many decades, through their stranglehold on retail distribution. People making freer choices through the Internet and elsewhere based on easier access to nontraditional outlets (by that I mean 100% legitimate transactions between artists and consumers) threaten the moguls' house-of-cards monopolies.
Consumers should not pay extra, lose their rights, and get less for their money in the future just to support movie/music industry fat-cat dinosaurs.
Friends, soon we shall be as the Soviets were when only those in government had access to copy machines. Such a system will not only be detrimental to hundreds of millions, but such a system will ultimately break.
HF