As the cancerous tendrils of the Digital Millenium Act undermine freedom in the US and other Western nations, the irony is that commie bastards, or former commie bastards, will provide the new avenues of freedom, as they develop the hardware and open source software, to circumvent the intended totalitarian syndicalism our political and intellectual leadership have in mind for their citizens. Meanwhile libertarians, as they imagine themselves, embrace totalitarianism in the guise of protecting "intellectual" property rights. "Intellectual" property is not property; it is a Trojan Horse toward complete economic control by the central government, the supreme directive of every politician and all intellectuals.
Syndicalism is a version of socialism developed by Mussolini in Italy, and later recast into National Socialism (the Nazis) by Hitler in Germany. In the US, they together got the name Fascism. As advocated by intellectuals in US it is called "regulation", or "deregulation", or "a partnership between government and the private sector."
The constructs about possible backdoors is just the kind of lame-brained, pointy-headed, new-think paranoia that political leaders everywhere are prone to, and which intellectuals everywhere find intellectually stimulating. Since it goes over quite well to sell expensive government programs to the credulous public, it is a sure winner. Our leaders never foresaw the degree of freedom which the Internet would provide. In the past, people had to somehow physically cross borders to gain access to competitive political domains, now they only have to reach the Internet. Now our US leadership has the opportunity to reassert its dominance, and thwart what has come into being. Will "liberal" courts uphold the challange to liberty the new "antipiracy/security" laws embody, or will real liberalism be reawakened and reborn as judges face reality, as opposed to courtroom legalisms? I don't hold out much hope for the courts. But we still have the anarchistic interaction between Western nations and westernizing nations to work with.