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Bruce Schneier: Crypto-Gram Newsletter, August 15, 2002. Lots of good stuff here, including License to Hack, on the recent ridiculousness with the recording industry.

To me, it’s another example of the insane lengths the entertainment companies are willing to go to preserve their business models. They’re willing to destroy your privacy, have general-purpose computers declared illegal, and exercise special vigilante police powers that no one else has…just to make sure that no one watches The Little Mermaid without paying for it. They’re trying to invent a new crime: interference with a business model.

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