Howdy,
I just read this well-written essay by Cory Doctorow warning that the current woes of misguided copyright legislation are just the precursor to a full-blown war on the freedom of general purpose computing:
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
[...] we've spent the last decade sending our best players out to fight what we thought was the final boss at the end of the game, but it turns out it's just been an end-level guardian. The stakes are only going to get higher.
I also found this gem in the comments:
Incidentally, I copied/pasted the article into notepad so I could read it on a less-straining font.. and the implications of having done so in light of what the article was about was a bit entertaining =)
Cheers,
Drew