Actually, you can thank Congress for that. They were the ones that passed the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act), under the strong influence of the MPAA, and the RIAA.Well, sort of. Macrovision has been around for quite a bit longer than the DMCA (I remember their protection schemes getting in the way of a high-school editing project in 1992), but three minutes' worth of Googling around didn't turn up an exact date.
Anybody who is interested, though, might find the following URLs interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrovision (Quick summary of the company and links to related IP topics)
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/021114/mvsn10-q.html
(A summary of the company's recent financial performance... I didn't realize that they were the ones responsible for pay-per-view cable scrambling, too, until reading this...)
-me
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