Edward Felten, the Princeton professor who stood up to the music industry when they nastygrammed him over his white-paper on the security flaws in the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), has started a weblog called "Freedom To Tinker" where he keeps track of legal threats to tinkerers, the people who pry open technology to understand how it works, to improve it, or to make interoperable devices. The site was unavailable earlier this week: Felten's ISP shut off the site, because the site had appeared on a list of "spammers" published by an outfit called SpamCop (here's Felten's account of the incident). (Thanks to Vitanuova, Boing Boing Blog, and McGee's Musings for relaying this to me!)
Posted by
Sebastien at 8/17/2002 11:41:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
