BASC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Copyleft, Decss, Digital Millennium Copyright Act
2 Oct 2014
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What is free software: dmca not allowed to decrypt software under this, stallman using adobe e-reader software to make something else, source code is speech, stallman didn"t posit free software as free speech, hacker, distinct lineages. Transgressive tradition (roots in phone phreaking) morphed into the hacker underground: group of hackers that tended to seek forbidden fruit, they liked the pleasure from secrets, hackers became security professionals, ethics of transgression. University labs like mit, stanford, carnegie melon: transparent and less secret. All hackers want information to be free : free software comes mainly from this sect, access to big computers and stuff, people not even registered in the universities would go and, distinct technical practices hack for the computers. If we had copyright from the beginning, there would be no free software. People had an experience with it and there had already been a decade of sharing.
