As rabenhorst(whose site, by the way, sends my Safari to the happy hunting grounds) links: Intel has built DRM techniques into the new dual-core processors that, for example, Microsoft can use to build upon in the system. Then Microsoft, on behalf of the entertainment industry or for its own benefit, determines which software and which data can be used on the system. Private copies are no longer up for discussion, and let's wait and see when Microsoft then classifies Open Source as untrustworthy and blocks it.