Ooppss...Here's the real joke of the day. Slashdot is reporting on an article which makes a case for how Palladium can be used to protect piracy on P2P networks. From the discussion in the Slashdot comments, seems like it might work.

One slashdotter noted how fair use rights could also allow pirates to make legally available small sections of their DRM encoded media, even if it is protected, resulting in a full version with enough contributors:

What about an idea of taking advantage of what is traditionally viewed as fair rights. Say it's okay to just extract 3 seconds of media. I can then publish on a P2P network an article which includes an except of seconds 7.2 through 9.8 of a song. If enough different (and independenly-acting) people publish fair-use derived content with different 3-second extracts, one could in theory reproduce the entire original. There are also crypto techniques such as secret splitting, but the simple 3-second method may be more defendable in the interests of expression of fair rights as long as there is no collusion among individuals. Just a thought, not that I condone unauthorized copying.

Well, whether any of this is feasible or not, I do love that it's probably causing a fuss over at Microsoft, the RIAA and MPAA right about now :)