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Famed hardware hacker Bunnie Huang announces his newest project and goes into detail about how trouble from the DMCA was the impetus. He comments that unchecked power to license freedom of expression should not be trusted to corporate interests. The project, NeTV2, is being crowdfunded.
I'd like to share a project I'm working on that could have an impact on your future freedoms in the digital age. It's an open video development board I call NeTV2.
It's related to a lawsuit I've filed with the help of the EFF against the US government to reform Section 1201 of the DMCA. Currently, Section 1201 imbues media cartels with nearly unchecked power to prevent us from innovating and expressing ourselves, thus restricting our right to free speech.
At Boing Boing : Innovation should be legal; that's why I'm launching NeTV2
(Score: 4, Interesting) by canopic jug on Monday May 14 2018, @02:59PM
[...] but it seems like this 'product' is just a cute vehicle for talking about copyright reform.
I thought that was the whole point. The Boing Boing page is mostly commentary about the DMCA, the problems it produces, and how this device can be used strategically to take a swipe at the DMCA. The Crowd Supply page goes into more of the technical specifications and the details of the expected product. The restrictions have not been growing steadily although they have grown consistently. If we wait too much longer, there will be no way out from some of the nastier provisions because there has been no push back. Now, with this device, there is push back in those one or two areas.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.