Fwd: pho: Digital Imprimatur?

(Forwarded from Pho list.  The linked text is highly worth the read.  -
- Seth)

-----Original Message-----
From: "James S. Tyre" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:38:17 -0700
Subject: pho: Digital Imprimatur?

Lee Tien, an EFF staff attorney, has been sending the note below 
around to various lists.  I don't think reference to the piece has 
made its way to Pho yet, so here 'tis.  Well worth the read.

>Date:         Sun, 19 Oct 2003 13:02:54 -0700
>Reply-To: Law & Policy of Computer Communications
<[email protected]>
>From: Lee Tien <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>
>Folks, this piece is highly recommended.  It is not short, but it is
>as short a summary you can get of a big topic.
>
>John Walker, who co-founded Autodesk and then retired to Switzerland
>to pursue his own researches, has written up why he's no longer
>optimistic about the openness of the Internet.  He sees the enclosure
>technologies and mechanisms all being developed and deployed.
>
>  "How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in
>  the bottle."
>   http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
>
>This piece doesn't say anything new to the digerati, but it puts it
>together in a very clear and I think chilling way.   As one who works
>in the trenches, so to speak, sometimes it's hard to frame the
>battles for the wider audience.
>I wish I'd written it for EFF, but maybe the critique will be more
>persuasive coming from someone else.
>
>Lee
>(I apologize for posting to several lists, but I really do think it's
>a must-read.)
>
>
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