Lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee are circulating drafts of three bills that would give federal agencies the ability to write regulations preventing digital radio and TV broadcasts from being pirated.

Something's gone seriously wrong when you have to hold someone at gunpoint to get them to pay you for a product that they obviously want (but don't "need").

Copyright was a first-approximation solution to valuing information that served well enough for the first 100 years or so. Its really showing its age now, though, and we're in desperate need of a new system.