[neutrino]

I suspect that congress will try to pass some such bill. However....some teenager will find a way to break it. Copy protection schemes have been going around since floppies held 144 KILObytes, and none of them stand the test of time.

Take PGP. It is a federal felony (10 Years + $10,000) to export it outside of North America. But the latest versions are easily found in Norway, the UK, and so on.

[DuncanWaring]

Actually, it's legally 'exported' by printing out a hard-copy version of the source, binding it up in a book (freedom of expression), shipping the book to Norway or wherever www.pgpi.com is hosted, running the pages back through an OCR, and rebuilding.