A movie executive believes movie piracy deserves as much attention as the war on terrorism. Australian IT reports Star Wars producer, Rick McCallum, as claiming the film making business will be dead in three years if it doesn't deal with Internet piracy.

The latest edition of Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram is a short one because he's working on a new book. Nevertheless, informative as ever.

Ed Felten recently suspended daily entries in his 'Fritz's Hit List' where he lists examples of the kind of things which will need copyright protection built in if the CBDTPA ever becomes law in the US. Just some examples - cockpit voice recorders, talking dog collars, military bugles, digital church bells, speed cameras, musical car horns, buggies to explore the surface of Mars, digital sewing machines, aircraft intercoms, talking pill bottles, Wallace and Gromit talking alarm clock, christmas ornaments, audio greeting cards, toy cash registers and, I kid you not, a remote controlled fart machine.