There is a scary new copyright law going through congress called the INDUCE Act. This law threatens to make any device capable of copying copyrighted material a thing of the past. The law would make manufacturers of such devices liable for any infringement of copyright by users of the devices. Read more about the INDUCE act
here. In reaction to this proposed law, the
Save the Ipod site has an online campaign to fax your senators, telling them not to support this bill. Go do it! Thanks to
Chris for pointing all this out.