Reaction To The Reading: The Right To Read

The article started off with a story that was published in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM called The Road To Tycho. It also says that it was published in 2096. I am taking from the story and the dates provided that the story it predicting the future of the internet, pirates, and overriding systems that computers may have.
It also states that the right to read is being fought today...it is? In the US, the legal basis to restrict the reading and lending of computerized books and other data was an Act passed in 1998 by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This was news to me and kinda of scary if you think of it. In 2001, a Disney funded bill called SSSCA required all new computer to have a mandatory copy-restriction facilities that the users cannot bypass. This was also new to me, and I am very skilled in the use of computers.
The SPA, Software Publisher’s Association, is a police-like role to catch the people who bypass this program encoded in the computer and anyone else that has anything to do with pirating. Recently it was replaced by the BSA, Business Software Alliance. They were not suppose to act like a police chain that tracks your every move, but unofficially it does. Do you think that is fair?
At a Chicago university the computer print this message when you log in:
"This system is for the use of authorized users only. Individuals using this computer system without authority or in the excess of their authority are subject to having all their activities on this system monitored and recorded by system personnel. In the course of monitoring individuals improperly using this system or in the course of system maintenance, the activities of authorized user may also be monitored. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring and is advised that if such monitoring reveals possible evidence of illegal activity or violation of University regulations system personnel may provide the evidence of such monitoring to University authorities and/or law enforcement officials."
Pressure most everyone to agree, in advance, to waive their rights under it; the fourth amendment. The quotation is a very interesting approach to this amendment.