M$ Palladium-Big Brother?

The impending implementation of MS's Palladium technology looks to be very Orwellian in nature. Palladium if implemented would essentially place control of any hardware and/or software that you might want to use on your PC solely in control of the respective vendors, as you would have to get 'permission' from them to use something YOU bought. This includes something as simple as just booting your PC! You can also be assured of being charged an access fee to get 'permission' to use the item, once enough of this technology is spread. This will be a hardware based item with eventual implementation based on the CPU itself.

Read on for more info over at The Register.

Further reading... TCPA/Palladium FAQ's

And even more over at Van's Hardware.