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Not much if you have not put a Sony DRM protected CD in your computer which may include Columbia, RCA and a bunch of others. However, there are some reports that it propagates through internal internets.

Hopefully, Sony may well now be prosecutable under Federal Law regarding government and military computers. Map is not detailed enough to see if in Iraq but I would suspect so.

One thing would be for Utah FReepers to put a lot of pressure on Hatch.

I can just see this in 10 years:

1. 10 DRMs on a computer each fighting over which CD driver to use.

2. Most DRMs don't unload and are continuously stealing 10 x 2 percent or 20 percent of your CPU cycles

3. Conflicts between DRMs which no one will take responsibility for. Blue Screen of Death every minute.

4. Even more bootleg songs on the net since no computer owner will even go in the same room as an Audio CD

5. Every song is on the net is in bit perfect form since at least one computer owner in the world is smart enough to run his CD player's S/PDIF optical output into a high end sound card on his computer ...and... the post the rip on the net to get even.

6. Sony is down to 1,569 Audio CD purchasers with the following profile:
Average age......................... 14
Average annual income...... $20 a month allowance
Have computer at home..... 0.000001%
Favorite band..................... Jay and the Nosepickers