It’s hard to believe, but it’s illegal to fly a drone in the U.S. for commercial purposes.

The reason is that national authorities have been dragging their feet for years to establish rules for flying machines that are essentially expensive remote-control toy quadracopters.

It looks like at long last the feds will act. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expected to begin a one- or two-year process that will culminate in actual rules.

Two years is like 14 years in both dog and Silicon Valley years — an eternity. Worse, it looks like those rules may stifle drone innovation in the U.S. indefinitely.

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the FCC is considering the following drone rules:

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