http://junk.haughey.com/doctorow-drm-ms.html
This is a transcript of a speech given by Cory Doctorow of the EFF on Digital Rights Management, or DRM. If you have downloaded an MP3, used iTunes, Winamp, VLC, or any DVD player (software or hardware) in your life, this article is relevant to you.
It's an argument against Microsoft not to so heavily pursue DRM in the form of a) music copying and b) the shady-sounding Palladium "trusted computing" technologies that are expected in the next release of Windows.
Check it out.