There have been a few new items about DRM and ID cards out on the electron sea since Christmas. I’m happy to report that the Government have said that they’ll be storing less information on their ID cards; ‘format shifting’ (copying CDs) should be legal; the term of Copyright won’t be being extended to 95 years (thus upsetting Sir Cliff); and there’s a detectable undercurrent in the music industry that is beginning to realise that customers don’t like DRM. All good news for the New Year.