Copyrights

Boynton's "The Tyranny of Copyright?"

When searching online, and after reading through several of the other responses, my research turned up with similar results. Why War?, a student org. at Swarthmore combined with the efforts of Luke Smith and Nelson Pavlosky tried to bring down the powers of Diebold Election systems for biasing the voting machines on campus. The idea seems great - and would be right on with Boynton's ideas of string-free information for everyone through the internet to increase total public information and awareness - but their execution was off. They infringed on copyright laws and were given a cease and desist order from posting the Diebold information. Even though they pursued legal action, the red tape of copyright laws still prevented their ability to fight against something.