Bend over America, here it comes:
SSSCA introduced into US Senate, after being renamed to the
"Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act".
This exceedingly nasty bill will mandate copy-denial systems in all
electronic devices (including your PC), and make it a federal crime to
circumvent said systems; or, essentially, herding consumers where they may
be more easily harvested by the content corporations, their own rights be
damned.
Needless to say, this poses a threat to the legality of open-source
operating systems and commodity hardware.
The House of Representatives hasn't yet introduced a similar bill,
though it shouldn't be ruled out.
If you're in the US, now is a good time to write to your Senator and
tell them why the bill is a very bad idea.