Follow-up On Internet Access (the COPE bill)

I posted last summer about the COPE bill (renamed HR 5252):

http://holidaydarin.blogspot.com/2006/06/for-sale-one-not-very-recently-used.html

I'm happy to report that after passing the House of Representatives, the bill died in the Senate when Congress adjourned at the end of 2006. That's great news for now. The telecommunications companies donate big in DC. Don't expect that they'll give up trying to abscond with profits from a system they never even had a hand in creating.