Senator Orrin Hatch announced a bill on June 24th that's seeking to curb the invention of music file sharing software, but could also be used to sue a wide range of other software, and discourages sharing of data in general. It's called INDUCE, because it targets anyone who induces someone to copy a copyrighted file. Click the headline to read the introduction to the biil, annotated heavily with commentary.
In theory, this bill (if passed) could be used by news companies to sue the Indymedia software developers for advocating "open publishing" that doesn't restrict people from re-posting news articles, and to sue the Indymedia network for allowing stories to go up before being approved by an editor.
File Sharing Bill Can Threaten Indymedia