The latest anti-piracy move will prevent you from making high-quality copies of broadcast TV programs. And the new "broadcast flag" technology enables all manner of other restrictions.
This will apparently require all TVs sold in the USA to fit a chip which honours a broadcast flag set by the MPAA. If this flag is detected, the TV will block its high quality digital output, and force you to record on your old VCR or a special low resolution DVD with analog sound.
Yay! Looking forward to July 1st, 2005. Not.