A bill in works has me concerned. It all points to the government allowing companies to employ tactics that will interfere with the utilization of your computer and will allow companies to disrupt services that you may be valid in using and create the real possibility that companies can take arbitrary actions that could damage your PC. The bill still makes it illegal to disable or crack an end-users computer but if you really read the article you can see were this is headed. There will be people on both sides of the fence on this one but you had better get involved in voicing your opinion to your legislature.
This bill will make it easy to shut down on-line services like Morpheus and Kazaa. The bill, to be introduced in the next several weeks, would attempt to minimize the illegal trading of copyrighted songs and other content on “peer-to-peer” (P2P) networks by permitting copyright holders to use technology against pirates. [TechNews]