A Cop in Every Computer

It appears that the battle over intellectual property is only going to continue to heat up during the next year. This story from law.com is about a bill by Seantor Fritz Hollings to mandate anti-piracy protections be built into every electronic device or software produced.

The content and technology industries differ over an initiative that would build infringement-sniffing powers into new computers.
In short: The content industry wants to place a copyright cop in your computer. It also wants to station one anyplace else on the Internet where an unauthorized copy might be made.

I think it's time for all of us to start writing our congress people.