RIAA and Internet Radio
The Washington Post has an article on the RIAA's push to get Congress to require manufacturers of digital radio receivers to include some form of copy protection into their hardware.

As usual, they want to waste tax dollars and cause customer confusion rather than come up with a viable approach that works for everyone.

The article cites a speech that activist and blogger Cory Doctorow gave to Microsoft on DRM. He asserts that "DRM systems are broken in minutes, sometimes days. Rarely, months. It's not because the people who think them up are stupid. It's not because the people who break them are smart. It's not because there's a flaw in the algorithms. At the end of the day, all DRM systems share a common vulnerability: they provide their attackers with ciphertext, the cipher and the key. At this point, the secret isn't a secret anymore."

I'm all for the RIAA trying to protect their copyrights as long as they don't try to pass off that responsibility to someone else. Hardware manufacturers and Congress should not have to be involved.