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Electronic Frontier Foundation Takes on Big Media


John Perry Barlow, former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder/vice chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), is confident out technology-driven era will prevail over backward thinking. Content providers and distributors (read Hollywood and big media) have been digging in their heels, opposing free, open access to information, but EFF believes the Internet will be a democratizing and empowering global force. Let businesses make their money on services and relationships rather than content ownership!