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US Copyright Law and DRM Update
Copyright law and digital rights management are gearing up for even bigger battles than the ones we've seen at EFF in the last five years. The US Supreme Court will almost certainly decide the Grokster case this summer. Intel, Microsoft, AMD, and a scurvy gang of hangers-on like anti-spammers, disk drive and monitor makers are trying to lock-down every new PC so the owner can't control what software runs on it, it can't get on the Internet or run popular protocols using unapproved software, etc. Ultimately this is all about propping up monopolies, and they might get away with it. The decisions made by informed or ignorant consumers (and the journalists who inform them) will determine whether today's freedom survives.
