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Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters lends her strong support to the INDUCE Act in her testimony before the Judiciary Committee today. Interestingly, she quotes both the Berkman Center amicus brief in the RIAA lawsuits and Fred von Lohmann’s piece for P2P software developers on avoiding secondary liability. It’s good to see she’s paying attention to these sources, even if she comes to the wrong conclusions.

Very wrong conclusions. She seems to believe that the IICA will just leave a smoking hole in the ground where the P2P companies used to be, and will leave everyone else alone. She fails to consider the chilling effect the law will have on innovation. The hearing begins in 15 minutes; we’ll see how it goes.