I'll bet you that you'll think this is rather disturbing.

The key is creating a realm in computing where each bit of communication — an e-mail, an online purchase, a check of a database, the reading of a document — can be achieved only by interacting with secured, uniquely identified hardware through "trusted agents."

Each agent would enforce policies set by senders, recipients, copyright holders or a combination that would decide how the content can be used.

See? I told you it was disturbing!