Think of this as Volume 17, Number 13 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy.
I have been following the copyright
wars since their inception, in 1997. I watched the passage of the
Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) in 1998, and the No Electronic
Theft Act.
Both had a similar aim, to keep people from stealing making and re-selling copies of material subject to copyright, now that technology allowed for clean (or nearly clean) copies.
My sympathies here are purely with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and blogs like Boingboing, which hate these laws as attacks on freedom of speech, of association, and the free exchange of ideas.
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