The EFF's Endangered Gizmos List
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a list of 'endangered gizmos', complete with categories for 'saved' and 'extinct':
FCC Chairman Michael Powell calls TiVo "God's machine," and its devotees have been known to declare, "You can take my TiVo when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!" But 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?
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Rather than sit back and watch as promising new technologies are picked off one-by-one, EFF has created the Endangered Gizmos List to help you defend fair use and preserve the environment for innovation.
It's worth noting that the iPod, along with firewire drives, open WiFi access points, and CD burners are all listed as endangered due to the push for new laws like the Induce Act. I *Heart* the EFF.
Posted by drunkenbatmanJanuary 24, 2005, at 11:09 PM
