"I have to say I'm sympathetic to the plight of a movie producer who sees the product distributed digitally without any payment. But we are reaching the point where we're creating serious complications for the kind of data flow you need for democracy and scientific inquiry to work. People are commercializing everything and selling it. I'm worried that we are going to patent facts." See also :
Collections of Information Antipiracy Act and
Consumer and Investors Access to Information Act.