Hollywood's Secret War on Your NOC

Cory Doctorow, science fiction writer, co-editor of Boing Boing, and former Director of European Affairs for the EFF

The entertainment industry has tried to ban every new technology from the record player to the VCR, but when it comes to the Internet and the general-purpose PC—the battleground of the war on copying—Hollywood has far grimmer plans. Under a variety of legislative, standards, policy, and treaty negotiations, the people who brought you Police Academy n–1 are working to prohibit open source, make open ports a crime, and turn Web 2.0 into AOL 0.9b. You can fight this—you can put a stake through its heart. If you don't, kiss everything you love about the Internet goodbye.