This article at Fox News details the nefarious plan by Senator Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.) (who is bought and paid for by the recording industry) to require “digital rights management” in all digital devices.

Consider the following excerpt from the bill: “It is unlawful to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any interactive digital device that does not include and utilize certified security technologies.”

To paraphrase Charleton Heston’s character in Planet of the Apes:

“Keep your grubby laws off my computer, you damn dirty senator.”

More background:

Slashdot article—“Senator from Disney”

Downloading can’t be stopped—Why the music (and film) industry will lose this battle.