A number of distinguished organizations sponsored the Law and Technology of DRM conference that took place February 27 - March 1, 2003.

This presentation by Ed Felten is a real mind blower. The public is expected to tolerate the use of black box technologies in situations where doing so cannot possibly be in our best interest to do so, such as electronic voting machine systems.

The stills below explain a bit about this, but you'll really want to listen to the whole thing for yourself. Please do. It's really important that we all start taking this stuff very seriously so that we can start making our representatives aware of the current intolerable situation.

Ed Felten - Part 1 of 2 (Small - 10 MB)
Ed Felten - Part 2 of 2 (Small - 8 MB)

Ed Felten - Complete (Small - 17 MB)

Ed Felten - Complete (Hi-Res - 226 MB)

Audio - Ed Felten - Complete (MP3 - 12 MB)

Here's a transcript.

This work is dedicated to the
Public Domain. (Take it and run, baby!)