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FTC Taps Ed Felten As First Chief Technologist
An anonymous reader contributes this snippet from Digital Daily: "Looks like the Federal Trade Commission got its first choice of Chief Technologist, because it's hard to think of anyone better to serve in that capacity than Princeton computer science professor Ed Felten, a guy whose CV makes everyone from Microsoft to Diebold shudder in embarrassment."
He and that criminal piracy organization that he works for, Princeton, should be locked up!
He and Princeton only works to provide tools to pirates and to destroy the movie and music industries.
How dare he support piracy and takes the food out of the mouthes of deserving industry executives! Without the repeated extensions of the copyright periods, there will be no incentive to produce new versions of Snow White. 75 years is just not enough time to make back the money invested in making a song or a movie!
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Anyone else get the feeling that these ivory tower intellectual types are looking down their noses at us?
Every time someone asks that I think, or say, "yes, and it's well deserved."
Felten showed that Microsoft was lying when they claimed in court that they could not remove Internet Explorer from Windows without disrupting the entire OS. He was also responsible for other discoveries embarrassing for several companies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Felten
And what advantage would private sector experience give him in this position? Other than industry ties that would be used to manipulate him?
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Maybe because he believes in fair use?
He was one of the scientists behind the MPAA v. 2600 amicus briefs.
He also went after the RIAA when they threatened to sue him if he commented on encryption in one of his presentations.
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