<![CDATA[The New York Times > Technology > Federal Effort to Head Off TV Piracy Is Challenged:
Mike Godwin, the legal director for Public Knowledge, a digital-rights advocacy group in Washington, is a fan of Showtime’s new drama series “Huff.” So three weeks ago, when he missed the season finale, he decided to download it to his personal computer.
It took about seven hours to download all 500 megabytes of the hour-long episode over his high-speed Internet connection, using the latest file-sharing software designed to handle large digital files.
Still, he did get it. And he did watch it.
I’ve known Mike for almost 20 years now and he’s never backed down from a fight. What’s especially interesting about this story is that today acts of civil disobedience no longer need to be mass events; civil disobedience now can happen one person at a time (that is, if they care to publicize their disobedience). Mike’s taking a stand for access to information that would have been invisible to the world 20 years ago, before this Net thing came along.]]>