Senator Hatch's stands on copyright have been repeatedly one-sided; protect the recording and motion picture industries. In doing so, he has caused immeasurable harm to technology. My own Internet Service Provider business, XMission, has had to deal with being the media companies' unpaid copyright police since Digital Millennium Copyright Act became law. Every week, we handle hundreds of spurious complaints with no compensation from these entities for doing so. We've also seen the DMCA levied by third parties attempting to thwart the business of their competitors.
Read the whole letter: he makes several great points.
Thomas Babington Macaulay delivered two brilliant discourses before the Parliament in 1841 and 1842 on the subject of copyright. His arguments are still entirely valid today. Both discourses are available in their entirety in the newsletter of the Baen Free Library, and both are highly recommended reading.