[danohu]

Last year I wrote this summary of how it happened: http://ohuiginn.net/wp/?p=2175

Roughly, the printer industry set up self-surveillance in the 90s, because they figured the alternative would be bans on their products. On the government side, European countries were pushing for it at least as hard as the US was.

[joegosse]

Thanks for sharing. I'd read from your research that concerns about counterfeiting were the primary motivation