A subtle message: the Congressional Budget Office's suggestions could help lawmakers looking to oppose Hollywood.(Headliners)

Video Business, August, 2004 by Sweeting, Paul

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: * The Congressional Budget Office suggesting that lawmakers think twice before enacting any further revisions to copyright law, much to the chagrin of the studios, record companies and videogame publishers. * While Congress considers the Induce Act the small voice of the CBO just might be lot enough to shift the debate.

Even by the wonkish standards of Capitol Hill, the Congressional Budget Office is a pretty staid outfit. A non-partisan research arm of Congress, the office is populated by economists of a distinctly green-eyeshade cast, charged with crunching the numbers and staying out the political fray. So when the CBO makes news all, that's almost news in itself. Yet there it was last week sending a cold...