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The Free State Foundation
Annual Winter Telecom Policy Conference
Panel: The FCC’s Broadband Plan: The Good, The Bad, and the Just So-So?
January 29, 2010
Moderator Deborah Taylor Tate, an adjunct senior fellow at the foundation and a former FCC commissioner, joined several panelists to discuss the upcoming FCC broadband plan, which is due to be released March 17. The panel included:
Stuart Benjamin and Paul de Sa of the FCC;
Jeffrey Campbell, the senior director of technology and trade policy for Cisco Systems; “The thing about the National Broadband Plan that is really important for …
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In the last few years, to protect copyright and prevent piracy, game publishers have had to start moving toward some rather extreme forms of protection. Of course gamers today never had the experience I had growing up where I had to plug a security circuit into the I/O port to play some Sierra games on my Apple IIGS Woz Edition. Video game DRM (Digital Rights Management) used to prevent piracy and the software winding up on all the top torrent sites is a big issue these days. But some of the most egregious forms of DRM have simply been smashed by the hacking and torrenting community.


