Conspiracy Theorys
The recording industry is in trouble... Its not the first time, its not even the second time, but this time its different.
Back in the early days of radio, the recording industry was afraid that people would stop buying grammafone reccords because they could just hear the music for free.
They pressed for and got legislation (in the UK atleast) limiting the ammount of 'needle time' each station could broadcast in a day. Can you imagine todays music industry trying to *prevent* their music from getting airlplay?
About 20 (25?) years ago sony invented the vcr, the movie industry tried to get the device banned, fearing that if people could watch movies at home, why would they go to the cinema. They almost succeeded. Ironic considering that video rentals now account for half of the revenue a movie eventually makes..
Flash forward to now, people download music, and movies, and whats the recording and movie industries trying to do? introduce legislation to get the practice stopped.

Anyway, in steps Microsoft and announces a new part of windows called Palladium which is supposed to save the music and movie industry by limiting what media (movies and audio) you can view on your computer.

Palladium was the sacred image, supposed to protect troy from the greeks.

Microsoft Palladium is supposed to protect the recording
industry from the geeks.

The funny thing is... the greeks won.