Juicy Bit from Tom Matrullo

Tom gives the NYTimes a well-deserved pasting for writing about “Eric Corley’s efforts to demonstrate that the DeCSS code that breaks the ‘protection’ code on DVDs is free speech.” For example, Corley printed the code on the front of a t-shirt. Especially in contrast, the Times’ piece is a toothless gumming of the topic. Tom writes:

When a T-shirt has more critical first amendment power than the nation’s most prestigious newspaper, it’s fair to say that news is now the promise and the burden of the Net.

You go, Tom.

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