Copyright Office on INDUCE Act: It Isn't Strong Enough. Marybeth Peters, U.S. Register of Copyrights since 1994, believes there is "no question" that providers of services and mechanisms that could potentially be used to infringe copyrights should be liable for infringing use, regardless of the lack of control over users or the substantiality of non-infringing uses, to the point of rolling back the Betamax decision.

L suggests that all we have to do to convince senators that time shifting is fair use is to buy them TiVos. We're guessing that senators are not allowed to accept such gifts, or they'd already have TiVos by now and we wouldn't be having this discussion.