Does Web2.0=AOL 1.0? How the sneaky forces of darkness are criminalizing the Web in smoke-filled rooms that you can't get into.

Cory Doctorow is European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported nonprofit group that works to uphold civil liberties values in technology law, policy and standards. He represents EFF's interests at various standards bodies and consortia, and at the United Nations' World Intellectual Property Organization. Doctorow is also a prolific writer who appears on the mastheads at Wired, Make, and Popular Science magazines, and whose science fiction novels have won the Campbell and Locus Awards and been nominated for the Nebula Award. His short story collection, "A Place So Foreign and Eight More" won Canada's Sunburst Award for best sf book last year. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog, Boing Boing. Born in Canada, he now lives in London, England.

This is a presentation delivered at the Web 2.0 Conference held in San Francisco, CA, October 5-7, 2004. Our thanks go to MediaLive International and O'Reilly Media, the producers of Web 2.0, for permission to bring you this session, one of many from Web 2.0 here on IT Conversations.