Just a reminder that the EFF is running a list of “Endangered Gizmos,” technologies that are at risk (or have already become extinct), thanks to aggressive lobbying from the entertainment industry and clueless lawmakers looking to protect intellectual property (and trammeling technological innovation in the process). The EFF writes:
“…suppose none of us had ever been given the opportunity to use or own a TiVo — or, for that matter, an iPod? Suppose instead that Hollywood and the record companies hunted down, hobbled, or killed these innovative gizmos in infancy or adolescence, to ensure that they wouldn’t grow up to threaten the status quo?”
The Endangered Gizmos page tracks the fate of various technologies and tells you what you can do to help (which basically boils down to joining the EFF and clue-by-four-ing your Congresscritters).