Spyware: Thinning the Herd?

Boing Boing had an interesting little blurb today about spyware.

Spyware sucks, sure, but if I can avoid it with Firefox and the occasional AdAware scan, I'd rather not pay taxes to protect luddites from it. Spyware is a disease in the Darwinian ecosystem of the Internet, and it keeps power users ahead of brain-deaders who click moving banner monkeys.

The full story

A story detailing distributer WhenU's attempt to block the Spyware Control Act in Utah can be found here