Following some extreme brinksmanship -- will Sen. Hatch try to ram through some version of the Induce Act that we haven't even seen? -- it looks as if Induce is dead for the moment.

But Barnabas Collins looked pretty dead from time to time too.  It's a useful bet that we'll see Induce-like legislation proposed again, and soon.  (Sen. Hatch is, of course, stepping down from the chairmanship, and that may change the landscape.) 

Wouldn't it be a better idea, she said plaintively, to compete by offering low-cost, whizbang-searchable sources of content online -- rather than through legislation and litigation?  It's true that the RIAA has good reasons to want to reverse the effects of the 9th Circuit's Grokster decision.  But it's just too hard to define "bad" P2P systems without running the risk of chilling [pdf] the development of perfectly legitimate products and services.  In fact, it may not be possible.  P2P is an idea, like the internet.  

To all of the people who worked constructively with the RIAA to try to define "bad" P2P, bravo.  To all of the people who worked constructively with the RIAA to avoid constraining new legitimate technologies, bravo to you too.  And to all a good (and long) night.