One of the cool things I noticed about this is that the guy whose blog post brought this to my attention is an English major. Back in 2001 when I was trying to organize an anti-DMCA organization, I don’t think I found anyone who even knew what DRM was, to say nothing of being excited about the issue, who wasn’t a CS major. This is progress.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certaincompanies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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