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Episode 187: Filtergate is DRM for Water

The Security Ledger

Back when it passed in the 1990s the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was about protecting songs, video games and movies from digital piracy. We discuss one recent example of this, the so-called GEFiltergate incident, which saw a fridge owner going to great lengths to circumvent GE implanted RFID tags in GE-approved water filters. .

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On The Problem of Money, Politics, and SOPA

John Battelle's Searchblog

Go read this article to see what I mean: EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood Moguls Stopping Obama Donations Because Of President’s Piracy Stand: “Not Give A Dime Anymore”. And we already have laws that make piracy illegal. Or, put another way, they’re withdrawing it. Does this matter? Damn straight it does.

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