Seems to be a pretty good week for consumer rights, given the following stories I’ve spotted in the past few days:

• “Bush signs bill to help block telemarketing calls” (CNN): hopefully this means the national “do-not-call” registry to opt-out of most telemarketing calls should be online soon. Wish they’d take out the loopholes, though.
• “Chips losing some antipiracy support” (CNET News.com): the continuing uncertainty over digital rights standards, laws means that digital copy protection measures are not being implemented in hardware, which will hopefully make it easier for people to circumvent those measures and make fair use of the content they purchase.
• “Lofgren bill backs digital copying for personal use” (San Jose Mercury News): a bill that affirms consumers’ fair-use rights and takes some of the bite out of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).