My Prediction was a bit off. By 8025, to be exact, but given conditions I couldn’t have predicted (like sign-ups being turned off more often than not this year), I did better than your average weather forecaster.

It’s easy to forget with all of the other rights violations going on down at your local legislature, but the DMCA is still stupid, still in effect, and still basically unchallenged. Tomorrow, Bruce Perens plans to become a criminal. His intended crime? Explaining how DeCSS, incredibly simple software that has existed for almost three years and is only three times as long as the entry you are reading, works.

Update: The demonstration was called off. Crap.