I’ve got an article in the print edition of Reason about Microsoft’s ongoing efforts to make the DMCA look ridiculous. It’s now available online. One of the hazards of writing about technology for a publication with a months-long publishing process is that articles sometimes end up out-of-date before they hit newsstands. That happened in this case: I wrote the article in May, shortly after Microsoft announced it would shut down the licensing servers for MSN Music customers. Then Microsoft flip-flopped in June, too late to re-write the article.
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 certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.