Solveig Singleton has impeccable libertarian credentials: she's worked at the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute and for Peter Huber. Now Solveig is an adjunct scholar at the Progress and Freedom Foundation and published a paper today defending DRM and the DMCA: http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/pops/pop13.11dmca.pdf I admit my bias: I think section 1201 of the DMCA goes too far, and has caused a slew of problems to companies, researchers, and even journalists. I wrote in 2002 about how it could make me a federal felon for doing my job: http://news.com.com/2010-1028-978636.html Unfortunately Solveig seems dismissive of these problems, as Ed Felten writes about here: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1010 By way of background, copyright and the DMCA are a divisive issue among libertarians, as we've seen before (in other words, it's not just PFF that takes the IP-is-property view): http://www.politechbot.com/2006/03/28/a-divide-among/ -Declan _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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