New Anti-piracy Tactics?

According to Hiawatha Bray, we are all missing the point in the story
about Suncomm Technologies Inc., the company which threatened
to sue a Princeton
graduate
student who published an article revealing a secret method
of disabling their anti-piracy software – by holding down the shift key.

"Maybe the music industry has finally figured it out. Unless consumers
are forced to buy computers that will not copy CDs — fat chance — it’s
impossible to completely eliminate music piracy. So instead, the industry
might be designing systems that seek to gently nudge people toward honesty,
rather than dragging them in chains toward the path of righteousness."

from
the Boston Globe