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Wired: Geeks Protest, Nobody Comes

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 29, 2000

“Only about 20 Washington-area Linux users and
administrators showed up Tuesday morning in front of the Capitol
building to protest a controversial federal law called the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act.”

“”To a great extent this was an experiment to see if we could do
a protest,” said David Niemi, a network engineer at Sallie
Mae.”

“”I wish there was some way to get more people to learn how this
would affect them,” said Ken Firestone, a DC Linux users group
member who is a system administrator at a newspaper.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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