This talk I did for University of Alberta in March 2009.

1. It’s Tough Out There For A Geek:
The Changing Battlefield for Digital Freedom

7. (Some) Background

19. freedom to share, use, and
remix cultural content and code

20. but

21. The Chewbacca Principle

22. Business

23. Business

24. Business

25. Business

26. Art

27. Art

28. Art

30. the copyfight is dead

31. the fight for freedom

32. The Google Paradox

33. Google is cool.

38. Google is cool.

39. Google is really cool.

42. Google is scary.

45. Google is scary.

46. Google is really scary.

56. [generalizing]

57. Chewbacca

59. 1995

60. 2008

61. Cloud Computing

62. Home broadband adoption increased from 47% from March 2007 to 55%
in April 2008.
Some 55% of adult Americans now have broadband internet connections at home, up
from 47% who had high-speed access at home lastyear at this time. From March 2006 to
March 2007, home broadband adoption grew from 42% of Americans to 47%.
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63. Broad Web Services

66. quot;It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype
campaign,quot;
quot;Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you
hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of
businesses campaigning to make it true.”

69. Opportunity

70. Threats

71. Cloud Computing

73. Privacy

74. Privacy
Interoperability

75. Privacy
Interoperability
Portability

76. Increased Bandwidth

77. Filtration

78. Broad Web Services

79. Access To Knowledge

80. Initial Efforts

82. Privacy
Interoperability
Portability

83. Electronic Frontier Foundation

84. Filtration

85. Herdict

86. Access To Knowledge

87. Wheeler Declaration

88. Watchdog.net

89. Putting It All Together

91. • Privacy, Interoperability, Portability
• Filtration
• Access To Knowledge

92. rights and norms

93. post-geek

94. Thanks!