Gizmos under threat of extinction

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a list of technologies that will become extinct under the onslaught of new legislation and regulatory decisions passed at the behest of existing large media companies. As Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig points out in his new book, Free Culture, the reach of copyright law has been so expanded in recent years that the concept of the public domain is threatened. Beyond enriching media companies at the expense of the public good, it also makes the US creative industries less competitive.