A Straw in the Californian Wind?

Newspapers tend to keep their constituencies firmly in mind when they are writing. So you might expect the Los Angeles Times to be beating the drum for Hollywood fairly unthinkingly. And then up pops this editorial on various US proposals to give entertainment industries even more of a stranglehold over content, which concludes:

As they weigh the entertainment industry's pleas, lawmakers shouldn't assume all consumers are bootleggers and every digital device is a hand grenade aimed at Hollywood.

Very interesting: if Hollywood's local newspaper is daring to write this, maybe a few other people in the vicinity are starting to think this way too. (Via TechDirt.)