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The Road to Dictatorial Hell

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The MPAA and RIAA just submitted comments to the American Intellectual Property Czar, Victoria Espinel, laying out their proposal for intellectual property enforcement. They want us all to install spyware on our computers that deletes material that it identifies as infringing. They want our networks censored by national firewalls. They want border-searches of laptops, personal media players, and thumb-drives.

I am enough of a techno-pessimist to believe that baking surveillance, control, and censorship into the very fabric of our networks, devices, and laws is the absolute road to dictatorial hell. Chekhov wrote that a gun on the mantelpiece in act one is sure to go off by act three. The entertainment industry's pursuit of its own narrow goals has the potential to redesign our technology to be the perfect tools for oppression.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/16/digital-economy-act-cory-doctorow/print

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