When Policies Collide: Will The Copyright Wars Roll Back The Computer Revolution?

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Presented at 12th USENIX Security Symposium 2003 by

Mike Godwin

The last two years have seen an unprecedented effort by content companies--notably the movie studios--to press for legislative or regulatory requirements that could have closed down the open-platform, general- purpose computer as such. Where are these efforts going? What do they signify? What should we do about it?