I like to watch the occasional movie in Windows Media Player (no, not just porn) so I was a little concerned by the release of the new patch for Media Player. Apparently if you don't install this patch, the Evil Hackers can log on to your machine, run software of their choice and generally make your life miserable. (Unsubstantiated claims have came in that the unpatched version also sends your home phone number to space aliens, but I don't think there was any actual evidence.) I like to decide what code runs on my own computer, so I quick-like-a-bunny downloaded the patch and told it to install. And there, in black and gray, was Microsoft's latest EULA. Here's the, um, interesting information: Digital Rights Management (Security). You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software protected by digital rights management ("Secure Content"), Microsoft may provide security-related updates to the OS Components that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security-related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer. If we provide such a security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a Web site explaining the update. Um, excuse me? Pardon me for reading legalese as if it were English, but if I click OK, I'm giving Microsoft permission to disable software on my computer? And it's OK as long as it decides that this is in the name of Security? And that Microsoft might let me know on some Web site somewhere (maybe in an unused basement lavatory behind a door with a sign that says, "Beware the white rabbit") when it's done.