Kryptonite & Laws for Cyberspace

“Blogs are shifting the balance of power” article by Patti Waldmeir on FT was nice to read today, after doing Statistics II exam and failing Econometrics…
She tells the story of Kryptonite - do not confuse with the Superman stuff - a company that produces bike locks: a video spread in the blogosphere in September showing how to pick a Kryptonite lock with a ballpoint pen. Result: the company exchanged more than 300000 locks at a cost over $10 000 000…
Blogs (I would say Internet) Have (has) shifted the balance of power between man and business, with man now on the upper hand.
Some of you may see this in a “hacker moral way”, like it forces companies to improve their products; others will see it as the need of regulation for cyberspace. I like both, and agree with the author when she says that as blogging becomes more than a niche pastime this issue concerns more than nerds.