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 Monday August 01, 2005 22:05 by R. Isible
 Ian Clarke (Freenet) fingered by journalist that set up Kevin Mitnick Ian Clarke (the inventor of, among many other things, Freenet) has been singled out by a notorious US journalist that helped take down the US cracker Kevin Mitnick. The Freenet Project, involves a way to organise the distribution of information anonymously across computer networks in order to ensure anonymity. Now Clarke is being set up by NYT journalist John Markoff as a target of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with claims that Freenet is not about freespeech and anonymity, but actually about trading copyrighted material. Slashdot also has a discussion on the matter which refutes this. Markoff skews the reporting on Freenet by claiming that Clarke has changed tack from claiming to be concerned about copyright to claiming to be concerned about political censorship of dissidents. This is false as anyone that has followed the Freenet project from its inception knows. |
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Jump To Comment: 1Seems like just another front in the war waged by the supporters of the World Trade Organisation's Agreement On Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPs), namely one William Henry Gates III, corporate behemoth software industry's lobbyists and their media chums like John Markoff et al...
See The Anti-Software-Patent-Movement and the EU thread below
http://www.politics.ie/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6969