siliconvalley: Entertainment control freaks have an ally in Microsoft
An opinion piece from Dan Gilmor suggests Microsoft may be planning to support legislation such as the SSSCA bill.
Still, Microsoft is bidding to be the entertainment industry’s chief copy protector. Logically so: The more controls are established over digital content, the more Microsoft potentially stands to gain in another way, given the company’s equal loathing of unauthorized copying. After all, Microsoft has rigged XP in a way that will force some people to get permission to reinstall the system if they substantially change their PC’s configuration. And Microsoft, despite its continued arrogance in the face of being convicted of serial antitrust law-breaking, remains under some genuine threat from the Justice Department. What back-channel discussions are going on right now?