> Predicting DRM phoning home in 1997 does not seem startlingly prescient. Since when was being prescient the sole marker of an ideas value? What's interestin

> Predicting DRM phoning home in 1997 does not seem startlingly prescient. Since when was being prescient the sole marker of an ideas value? What's interesting about Stallman is that he's been repeating the same material since the 80's, and it only gets more relevant. He might be a paranoid weirdo but he does seem to at least be paranoid about something that has it's roots in reality. We might have increasing equality, and perhaps some additional freedom over our own bodies, but at the same time the wide spread deployment of mass surveillance tech has come at the same time. > But that doesn't seem so dystopian. Everyone is a publisher now. This is only not a dystopia if those publishers have sufficiently uncorrelated output and distribution channels. I'm not sure that's the case.