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January 10, 2012 03:55 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5qQBIe-7qX4/lockdown.html
Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing
General-purpose computers are astounding. They're so astounding that our society still struggles to come to grips with them, what they're for, how to accommodate them, and how to cope with them. This brings us back to something you might be sick of reading about: copyright.
But bear with me, because this is about something more important. The shape of the copyright wars clues us into an upcoming fight over the destiny of the general-purpose computer itself.
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