...Before the 2004 [US] elections, internal memos from Diebold leaked onto the Web detailing the company's illegal responses to the failures of its voting machines. Diebold didn't deny the memos, instead it targeted the ISPs of the activists who republished them, claiming that the notes were copyrighted works and demanding that they be taken offline immediately.
-- Cory Doctorow
...In 2001 the FBI imprisoned Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov the day after he gave a presentation at a Def Con hacker conference demonstrating the incompetence of Adobe's e-book protection. Charges were eventually dropped, but on Sklyarov's return to Russia, the Russian government issued a warning to its scientists to steer clear of American conferences, as we'd (the United States) turned into the kind of nation that threw people in jail for talking about math.
-- Cory Doctorow
Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc masses of the Internet have managed to put just about everything online. What
-- Cory Doctorow
DRM is when instead of being the artist people listened to when they lost their virginity, you are the artist they listened to when their computer crashed.
-- Cory Doctorow
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