If CEA Doesn't Fight For Vendors And Consumers, Who Will?  By
Bob Gerson On Aug 6 2007 - 5:00am  Earlier this year TWICE ran a
column authored by Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
president/CEO Gary Shapiro. In it he talked about the ongoing
battle CEA is waging to protect consumers' right to record audio
and video material. And my immediate reaction was, "Gary is
beating the same old horse again." After all, this was a major
theme at CEA's fall meeting in San Francisco, at International
CES in January and again at the spring meeting in Washington. So
how much is enough?  But later I started thinking about the
issue itself which, it seems, is really never ending and has
actually escalated since the dawn of digital. The right to
record has been under vigorous attack by copyright owners since
the appearance of the cassette, and the pace of the assault
picked up with the introduction of digital recorders that make
copying simpler, faster and more faithful to the original than
ever.  This is an attack that i