Mark Pilgrim mentions the news that no one but the lobbying industries has any good to speak of the CBDTPA, but the notable part is his reasonable prediction:
But if anything like this bill ever actually passes, our entire society will instantly turn into Cuba after the embargo, where everybody holds on to their pre-2002 technology, fixing it up year after year, decade after decade, rather than pay for new crippled technology.
Just let me buy a new computer first, since I'm already stuck in 1995.
