Wednesday, May 2, 2007

It's everywhere now...





Printing, publishing, saying, or disseminating a number is still speech, and deserving of 1st Amendment protection, regardless of its purpose.







Ahhh... takes me back to the good 'ol DeCSS days.... What do you get when you enrage a bunch of geeks with chilling censorship and rigged court battles? A whole cottage industry, of course!

I don't expect anyone to understand this, but...

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0


I think I'll have that printed on a bumper sticker, or perhaps a tattoo (it would be my first, and therefore always have special meaning.)

I'm no Anarchist, tho I do have Libertarian leanings. In today's day and age of the DMCA, the Patriot Act, and Gitmo, I do believe that Patrick Henry had it right... or maybe V said it better?

On a much more serious note... although the technology has changed, some things were said quite clearly, and repeatedly, so we would not forget them.