I was thinking: if CPRM is going to be part of the published ATA specification,
what's to stop someone from adding a simulated CPRM disk to something like
Plex86? The DMCA and its ilk, probably,
would make it illegal in anywhere you can legally export Netscape to, but
then again, so's DeCSS, and you can still find it if you try.
Eventually they may start dropping laser-guided bombs on offshore data havens
hosting DeCSS, CPRM-cracking tools and bootleg MP3s (no doubt reporting it
in the press as an "anti-child-pornography offensive" or something), though
maybe Khadafi (sp?) would be willing to host a DeCSS/DeCPRM mirror in that
bombproof bunker he has; given the mortal peril its dissemination poses to the
Hollywood-dependent US economy, it may be more worthwhile a use for it than a
biological weapons plant...