[nylug-talk] TIme to get a Nokia N810

[Chris Knadle]

On Wednesday 12 December 2007, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 02:34:51PM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote:
> >   And I just recently read Richard Stallman's story, "The Right to Read"
> > concerning DRM and access controls, and the more I think about it the
> > less I consider it science fiction.
>
> It was never science fiction.  Read about the vitalbooks reader and NYU
> Dental School from many years ago already.  It was the reason why many of
> us from the NYLUG community started New Yorkers for Fair Use.

   Found it.  Wow.  That happened 7 years ago, even.  I either hadn't seen 
that before or had completely forgotten about it.  What a disaster.  I hope 
that system is not still in place.

   Thanks for pointing this out.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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