Patrice came up with a worrying thing that is especially interesting to fsfeurope:

From: Patrice Riemens patrice@xs4all.nl

The new Italian law, whereby each and every piece of soft and hardware used for commercial purpose (i.e. pretty much any, including public space, even when non-profit - ascii cafe, pay attention!) must carry a stamp of approval by the authorities (against copyright infringments) which is so complicated & expensive to obtain that only very big firms (think of one) can manage to do so, is another nice example. Not having the stamp on your stuff (and possibly next, tatooed on yr skin, when the wetware will also come under the purview of the protection of the biggos' 'intellectual property') will be a penal offense and carry punitive fines and long prison sentences. Open Source development activities and Free Software use will become crimes. Now that's good news for M$ (and Co$?), well they lobbyed hard for it.

(Full story in nettime - Or is it's again a piece of 'monkey sandwich'- Dutch for urban myth - peddled by afficionados of conspiracy theories?)