'Cause I'm left-handed

Transparency is a core value of open societies, but it isn't to the sort of Ayn Rand price-on-everything universe that the Bushists (and Alan Greenspan) profess to love as long as it doesn't hurt their cronies.

Corporations, of course, may use Rand-like laissez-faire rhetoric, but they really just want the playing field tilted in their favor. That's why all copyright law for the past at least twenty years has been destructive of public rights and fair use. Digital rights management, enabled by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, gives them everything and the rest of us, whatever's left.