According to New Scientist, Philips has taken my advice and threatened 'protected' CDs with lawsuits.

Sadly, another part of Philips has different ideas


Philips is leading the charge to start yet another industry initiative to tackle digital rights management, this time focusing on the wirelessly networked home, EE Times has learned.

At stake here, said Leon Husson, executive vice president of consumer businesses at Philips Semiconductors, is the "free-floating" copyrighted content that will soon be "redistributed" or "rebroadcast" to different TV sets throughout a home by consumers using wireless networking technologies like IEEE802.11.

Rather than wait for Hollywood studios to raise a red flag over unprotected wirelessly transmitted content, some technology companies want to tackle the issue in advance and develop solutions together with content owners.

"We are dying to lobby Hollywood studios on this issue," Husson said

Oddly enough, he seem to think you can use TCP/IP without IP addresses too...