Computers (and especially networked computers) are starting to annoy the people that are actually in charge.
Relevant article ("Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing"):
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
The article is a bit on the extreme side I think, but something to consider when these sorts of restrictions are considered being made law by one of the most powerful countries on the planet.
PD