Outliving Outrage on the Public Interest Internet: the CDDB Story
In our previous blog post, we discussed how in the early days of the internet, regulators feared that without strict copyright enforcement and pre-packaged entertainment, the new digital frontier would be empty of content. But the public interest internet barn-raised to fill the gap—before the fledgling digital giants commercialised and enclosed those innovations. These enclosures did not go unnoticed, however—and some worked to keep the public interest internet alive. Compact discs (CDs) were the cutting edge of the digital revolution a decade before the web. Their adoption initially fol...
Source: eff.org