If this new law really gets rammed through in this lame duck session, not only will it undo fair use of copyrighted materials, you’ll be a criminal if you use your TiVO to skip any commercial material at all! Write your Congresspersons.
UPDATE: Boy, I’m having a hard time looking at this lighthearted post sitting here surrounded by death and destruction. But I can’t think about death and destruction all the time; I couldn’t continue if I did.