Yup, competing by legislating your competition into an uncompetitive situation via corrupt politics is antithetical to the very core of American values. It will all fail in the end EVEN if it succeeds, as that path leads straight DOWN FOR ALL – even for the dictator wanna be kings!

Hello Studios, Obama!

You had me at "Atlas resigns".

Side note: Only a megalomaniac would assume that only he can stop the world from destroying itself.

I know what's in the health care reform package. The politicians are correct, there is a massive crisis, but they're lying about where that crisis actually is. Medicare and Medicaid are rapidly going broke. When that happens, government will be forced to ration care. Then every one who fell for government's promises of cradle to grave care will realize what every one who doesn't buy into it knows, it's all a giant lie.

The politicians can't have that, no can they? I believe the real goal is rather than have a bunch of people on a sinking ship and a bunch off it, they want every one on it so they can continue to hide the truth.

If that doesn't blow your mind, imagine what is lurking in the socialized medicine health care reform bill.

It's based on money. Namely political donations through lobbyists and PACs. For years Microsoft spent zero dollars on lobbying. And when they achieved preeminence, suddenly the Justice dept. gets curious over anti-trust. Now a days MS employees an army of lobbyists and donates (last I heard, a couple of years ago) Around $1.3 million. Suddenly the Justice dept. decides MS is no longer in the monopoly business.

And as long as I'm on the subject, economics 101 shows there is no such thing as a true monopoly with out the government artificially creating it via legislation. Suppose a company is really that good, they drive all their competition out of business. They are the only provider. They can charge what ever they want. What happens next? Some one else comes in with a similar product or service, and starts underselling the monopoly, poof, it's gone.

There's only two ways around that, either buy off the police and use brute force to destroy their competitor, or even better, buy some politicians and have them pass laws making your competition illegal or too expensive so they have to rise prices.

Either way, it's government creating it.

But I am a computer guy, specifically internet security, so I can make guess.

My guess would be a two part encryption package. Install encryption software on the computer with a special "key" or code unique to the individual computer. When copying the DVD to a hard drive, encryption software in the DVD would work with the encryption software on the computer, thereby deriving a file which can only be unencrypted by that individual computer.

I don't see how that would help if everything was installed and loaded on portable hard drive, which could then be simply handed to another person. But of course you can do that anyway by simply handing them the physical DVD.

The DMCA also passed the House by voice vote during Senator Barr's term, so let's not even go there.