The Digital Economy Act: This Means War?

"In the US, the MPAA and RIAA... just submitted comments to the American Intellectual Property Czar, Victoria Espinel, laying out their proposal for IP enforcement. They want us all to install spyware on our computers that deletes material that it identifies as infringing. They want our networks censored by national firewalls (U2's Bono also called for this in a New York Times editorial, averring that if the Chinese could control dissident information with censorware, our own governments could deploy similar technology to keep infringement at bay). They want border-searches of laptops, personal media players and thumb-drives....

"[B]aking surveillance, control and censorship into the very fabric of our networks, devices and laws is the absolute road to dictatorial hell."

Read Cory Doctorow's article in The Guardian.