While I agree with your point that it's important to attack the root of the problem rather than dance around the edges -- shutting down drone activity before it even starts is better than waiting and hoping that some other legislator takes on the whole surveillance issue.

Controlling drones is a lot bigger of a deal in the surveillance area than just controlling bit torrent is to file sharing. There are a lot of almost-as-good alternatives to bit torrent. Cheap arial surveillance only has drones.

I will happily vote with you to support politicians who want to curtail unwarranted surveillance during upcoming elections; but I will take what I can get with this anti-drone legislation for now.