California "get 'em all" bill
Watch out for Calif. Sen. Murray's SB 96.
It covers operating systems. It probably covers Big Sur, once the redwoods are fully wireless. We're going after technology wholeheartedly now, without bothering to think whether that's a good idea. Broadcast = good; P2P = bad.
Ed Felten has a good post on the bill.
The content industry would like to make any technology that doesn't monitor for copyright infringement illegal — and that includes the internet.
Phooey. I'm going offline now for 36 hours. Not out of pique — really — just going out of range for a while. I'm sure there will be lots of offline festivities to watch in the meantime.