Red,
Your message brings up a valid question. You talk about coding for the PET. Considering WIndows has a 95% hold on the market, and MacOS has the other 5%, I wonder if non-standard computers and operating systems would wind up being banned in the end.
This new law states that all software will have to go through the Government. If it's impossible to incorporate their copy-protection code into a computer's software, all programmers for this computer and/or software would automatically be in violation of the law.
And I doubt that they'll try to learn every platform and OS out there.
So in the end, only Apple and Microsoft would truly benefit from this law. Everyone else will either be eradicated, or be forced to work illegally. The new Underground Railroad. :-)
I'm just glad that Aminet's original site isn't located in the US, and I hope that up here in Canada, we won't be copying this law in any way.
AmiGod
