Meet net neutrality advocate Tim Wu

We all know that as technology empowers us to do more, it carries with it all manner of problems.

But one of our biggest pickles tends to slip right by us: We're not free.

Source:
http://motherboard.tv/2011/3/14/cmd-ctrl-motherboard-meets-tim-wu-on-net-neutrality-information-empires-and-freedom

Benjamin Franklin the first IP pirate

What would Benjamin Franklin have thought about P2P file sharing? We'll never know, but a new book portrays him as a skeptic of intellectual property and an advocate for the common ownership of inventions and ideas.

Source:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/09/benjamin-franklin-founding-pirate.ars