Law (American I’m afraid)
Anybody heard of the Induce act? It is basically an act to make it illegal to “induce” people to infringe copyright. Sound reasonable to you? Well I suppose it does until you think that it will open up the floodgates for copyright holders to bring lawsuits against CD burner manufacturers and VCR recorders and iPods! And while most of these companies are likely to have deep enough pockets to eventually fight themselves out of a corner plenty of smaller technology companies (the ones responsible for the cool new technology we all love) would go under long before they could win a court case. The EFF have even drafted a fake complaint against Apple just to demonstrate how easy it would be.
Lawmeme has a nice vote on what will be the first thing to be banned if the act becomes law.
Ernest Miller, one of the Copyfight posters, has an amusing (or is it closer to the truth than it looks) hit list of things that may be targetted. Starting with the new WiFi car stereos, 3D printers and humble Am/FM transmitters