There's an interesting article mentioned in Slashdot today about Edward
Felton's (of SDMI watermark reverse-engineering fame) efforts to
publicize the benefits and rights of consumers and researchers to be
able to tinker with technology:
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1176171
It's not a very deep or comprehensive article, but I find some comfort
in the fact that someone seems to be looking at preserving our rights to
play with technology to experiment and improve it.
I see and hear lots of people complaining about corporations and big
business erroding our rights, but there don't seem to be many people who
are trying to do anything about it. It seems to me that if nothing /is/
done, the hobby we all enjoy and take for granted will be criminalized
for subsequent generations.
-brian.
Received on Tue Sep 10 2002 - 14:43:00 BST