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<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/1968670.html" title="future of computing... patents/"trusted" hardware...">Yes, exactly</a>.
My English (class: "reading fiction", focus on scifi) assignment last night was a cyberpunk-ish story called "Trouble and Her Friends". The basic plot was this: all of these (homosexual, of course, because the author was homosexual) hackers work in the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sco/sco-preemption.html">quasi-legal</a> gray area of the internet, when suddenly the goverment passes some <a href="http://anti-dmca.org/">legislation</a> that makes it all illegal. Some of them quit, some of them go into hiding, but none of them can make the rest of the world forget their past...
My English (class: "reading fiction", focus on scifi) assignment last night was a cyberpunk-ish story called "Trouble and Her Friends". The basic plot was this: all of these (homosexual, of course, because the author was homosexual) hackers work in the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sco/sco-preemption.html">quasi-legal</a> gray area of the internet, when suddenly the goverment passes some <a href="http://anti-dmca.org/">legislation</a> that makes it all illegal. Some of them quit, some of them go into hiding, but none of them can make the rest of the world forget their past...