The Coming War on General Computation

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But, tonight, I want to talk about something more important -- I want talk to talk about general purpose computers. Which, unfortunately, brings me back to copyright. ((133.8)) Because the general shape of the copyright wars and the lessons they can teach us about the upcoming fights over the destiny of the general purpose computer are important. Stop Online Piracy Act, bans tools like DNSSEC because they can be used to defeat DNS blocking measures. Why would other sectors nurse grudges against computers? Well, because the world we live in today is made of computers.

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