The Making of a Policy Gadfly

Jen Young pointed us to The Chronicle of Higher Education where they discuss Edward W. Felten, a distinguished Princeton University computer scientist.

He runs Fritz\’s Hit List, an irreverent inventory of devices that would be affected by a bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Ernest F. (Fritz) Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat. The bill, the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, would require manufacturers to add copy-control systems to computer hardware and software.

December 2, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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