5:35 PM
Waxy pointed toward the latest Dick Tracy storyline, where Dick is taking on DVD piracy (""You're coming down to Headquarters while we check out your DVDs!") Check it out for yourself--it looks like the story starts here, and you can run forward to the present.

Notice the cadre of Tracy involved in the storyline--CD, Burner, Broadband, Download, Digit, and Laptop, led by a cel-phone wielding crime boss. Listen, I'm not going to argue on behalf of pirates, but the tar is being applied with a pretty broad brush if all those concept-personae are lined up on the side of evil. What happened to the days when Dick and his two-way wrist radio were paragon symbols of technology used for good?

UPDATE: Today's strip confirms that the boss is indeed named Cellphone.