The temptation to pass laws like this (an unstoppable force) exists in fundamental opposition to the reality of tools as powerful, as versatile, as cheap, and as highly distributed personal computers (the immovable object).

This conflict is the essence of Cory Doctorow's thesis that all the superficially-unrelated tech related battles we've seen are simply proxy fights in the War on General-Purpose Computing.

I know that opinions about Cory vary considerably, but if there's one article that everyone should consider with an open mind, this is it: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html