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December 14, 2004
Copyright, file sharing, and all sorts of bruhaha
So I'm heading to the NEASIS conference tomorrow titled "Freedom vs. Control: Rights Management in the Digital Age". I'm particularly stoked to hear Wendy Seltzer from the Electronic Frontiers Foundation speak on "Views of the Digital Landscape".
Just as I'm looking over the program for tomorrow, I'm also catching up on my feeds. Boing Boing did a nifty write up for another book on filesharing titled Steal this filesharing book: what they won't tell you about file sharing / Wallace Wang:
Steal This File Sharing Book -- A-Z HOWTO for file-sharing
[Cory Doctorow @ Boing Boing 12 dec '04]
Wang is an accomplished tech writer and a stand-up comic, so Steal This File Sharing Book is both funny and lucid. It assumes almost no technical knowledge and it walks the reader through everything from file-compression protocols to anonymizing proxies to the notorious cross-stitch-pattern-trading underground.
If you want to figure out how to file-share safely, avoid spyware, not get busted, and learn about the morality and ethics as presented by all sides of the file-sharing debate, this is the book for you.
I don't have time to read this book before the conference, but I think it would make for nice post-conference "further reading".
December 14, 2004 6:19 PM