The Internet Hist - The Early Days of the Copyright War

This week's reading is going to be a the first part of a three part series i did for my column on medium called the internet hist. It's really the story of how the copyright wars were, you know, we think of them as being about copyright infringement, but they were really a bid to allow a single industry and its executives to decide how we would all use technology in the future. As i say, it's in three parts. The first part starts with my job on the day at the electronic frontier foundation, which was 20 years ago last month. So quite a long time that i've been at this, now that i think of it. All right, then,