The effect being proposed here is not new, but like most things internet it is perhaps new only in terms of the scale. For example, I don't sit in the crowd at

The effect being proposed here is not new, but like most things internet it is perhaps new only in terms of the scale. For example, I don't sit in the crowd at a football game wearing blue when all around me are wearing red. I don't walk on the street, in an economically depressed area, at night, with an expensive camera hanging around my neck, talking on an iPhone, and giving the finger to the local homies. There's no evidence that there's any connection between geohot, Anonymous and the recent Sony hacks. But Sony certainly put a big target sign up when they (somewhat vindictively) went after Hotz. They may not even be the worst offender when it comes to drm litigation. When car, after fancy car, rolls through the neighborhood, disrespecting the locals, you gotta expect that sooner or later they'll go past someone with enough criminal tendencies to throw a stone. When the population have no bread it may be king and not cake they end up eating. The internet is a big neighborhood - and when the law is out of touch with the mood of the people then there's always some backlash. Sooner or later stones will get thrown. The music labels, for one, could do worse than to think about such things.