Eben Moglen on the Dotcommunist Manifesto

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The DotCommunist Manifesto


URL = http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/speakers/moglen/


Review

"It is a profoundly simple and low quality video but the online video available here of Eben Moglen presenting and elaborating on ‘The DotCommunist Manifesto’ conveyed the kind of excitement to me that I like to imagine John Reed must have felt listening to those ranting in cellars in the days preceding the Russian Revolution." (http://mobfilms.allotherplaces.org/?p=14)

Bio

"Eben Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his "long, dark period" in New Haven. He began working as a professional computer programmer in 1973, at the age of fourteen. Before and during law school, from 1979-1984, he was a designer and developer of advanced computer programming languages (VSAPL, APL2, Pascal) at IBM's Santa Teresa Laboratory and Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

After law school he was a law clerk to Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School--and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel-Aviv University and the University of Virginia--since 1987. From 1991-1994 he represented Philip R. Zimmerman, the author of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) in connection with a potential criminal prosecution by the United States Government.

Since 1993 he has served without fee as General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation, and has represented numerous clients in the free software world. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society." (http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/speakers/moglen/)