Cringely On Civil Disobedience

Sauron23 writes "Robert Cringely over at PBS has his usual weekly Pulpit out. This weeks it's a follow up to last weeks discussion of one of the enforcers of the DMCA, BayTSP. He clarifies some of the issues surrounding a planned bust in October for P2P users sharing movies and makes perhaps an unusual request for civil disobediance from P2P users. I don't know what 10 million pirated copies of "Debbie does Dallas" would be worth either Bob. Probably more than the courts would want to handle. Worth the read." Some of the stronger parts of the column, IMHO, is the commentary on the e-mails people sent in.

Comments

Make a Cringely topic area or hire the damn guy!

[ekrout]

I've said this before, but I'll say it again [a little extra karma never hurt anyone] -- we need a Cringely topic icon.

Why, you ask?

Basically, some of the best discussions come from the Slashdot community after we collectively read a piece from Cringely. His ideas are often fairly original and interesting, which makes for a nice "vacation" from the usual OS Wars, Text Editor Wars, and Software Licensing Wars.

I'd even be happy to make the icon for the Cringely topic.

So, editors, care to give a little feedback on this? There are several other topic areas that we could certainly do without, but I feel that a Cringely area of the site would be well worth it.

Thanks for listening.

No, no!

[Lendrick]

That's exactly what he wants! Pretty soon the slashdot moderation system will be bogged down with everyone trying to mod down his post, and then they'll be forced to repeal it!