What if the owners of TV shows and movies had the right to come into your house and find out what you watched? What if they told you not to skip over commercials, warning that it amounted to stealing their property? What if they thought that even going to the bathroom during a commercial was a technical violation of copyright law? This is pretty much the insane state of copyright disputes, circa 2002. Content owners have convinced a judge that SonicBlue must hand over any data it has on how its subscribers use its ReplayTV broadband digital video recorder. The...