http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51274,00.html

The basic jist of the bill would mean that any software or hardware that
didn't include a government approved form of copy protection could not be
distributed within the United States. No software from outside the US could
be legally imported, since it wouldn't include the copy protection.

It would also end the shared libraries, since I couldn't write a piece of
software and give it to anyone else without violating the law and facing
criminal charges.

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 but in practice, theory and practice are different."

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