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Story: US Congress readies 'super-DMCA'

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Unfortunately Mr. Arthur, every computer on the planet is a potential vessel for these changes because they can house the software, and said software can be silently changed without any warning in advance to it's users - you'll see sections in EULA documents that state changes can be made without prior notice. So what you thought was OK to do can literally become life threatening the next day.
Here in Europe we are already waiting for the Software Patents tsunami to hit us full force and decimate innovation all around us. It is very similar to the changes mentioned in the above article, and carries similar threats. It's just one of the current threats looming over our heads here. We also have the Data Retention Act moving in for the kill - Data centers are already being built and filled with our personal details, it's just a matter of time before the bomb explodes under our very own doormats.

I see no good in so many restrictions. Next thing we know we'll have to file official permission requests to some major corporate controlling force for every little thing we want to do in our lives.
This reeks of DRM, but to a far deeper legal extent that will go right past every citizen who can't understand the first thing of it and will probably never hear about it until it is too late.

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