Fox was brought up for their propensity to use emotional pleas to sway public opinion away from scientific analysis or inquiry.
I mean, seriously, Linus Pauling didn't stumble on to the workings of chemical bonding through emotional pleas and Beck-esque tantrums. (LPI - please forgive me for using Mr. Paulings name in the same sentence as Glen Beck).
On matters of importance to the nation and the world, should we decide based on a Koch Brother funded talking head spouting drabble that doesn't pass muster on PolitiFact, yet somehow makes the rich richer and everyone else poorer? Or should we examine things with a sense of tough love where we do what the evidence shows us is probably best, consider that a starting point, and adjust as the evidence dictates?
Back to your point - the Democrats may have been in charge when this Copyright act was passed - but has it not been upheld by the Republicans as well during the foregoing 34 years? Is this wrong? What studies or research have been done to show the affects with and with out this legislation? And with other modifications to this legislation might make it more balanced? I think these questions are best answered over feeding into the US vs THEM political system we are currently enjoying, which backs only two possible solutions, usually in nearly direct opposition to each other.