Could this be the beginning of a new, sronger coalition in the US of hackers and anti-corporate activists? i hope so. it seems that it is only a matter of time until the pro-intellectual-freedom movements expressed by the free software movements, the modders and diy hackers join up with the larger anti-corporate struggles going on against corporations like wal-mart and haliburton.
maybe i'm being too optimistic, but it seems that the corporation as the target of anti-corporate-globalization activists is a major site of possible resistance in the anti-capitalist milieu. or maybe, they'll all just keep playing video games and hope that they don't get busted, instead of going on the offensive. is there also a parallel with the USC 2257 raids going on against porn producers? it seems like these egregious, beauracratic laws like usc 2257 and the dmca have very similar structures in requiring impossible forms of compliance as a way of totally outlawing a particular intellectual behavior through beauracracy. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
