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December 27, 2015 06:00 pm

Bruce Schneier: IoT DMCA = More Monopolies, Limits On Consumer Choice

New submitter OldMan17 writes: On Dec 24 while many of us were busy in frenzy of commercial excess and socially-conditioned good cheer, The Atlantic published an article by Bruce Schneier predicting that the IoT will be abused in conjunction with DMCA to make our lives worse instead of better. Some of the precedents he cites are old news, but I expect we will have a lively debate in the comments as to whether the over-arching conclusion is justified by his arguments. When everything is online, laws made for "the internet" suddenly apply to everything.

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