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The sheer volume of these thrown-away high-tech devices has become a serious threat to the environment. Worse still is the fact that we're only just starting to take the first small steps to face an issue that has been, out of self-interest, ignored by the computer industry and politicians for decades.
Not many of us would choose to step in front of a freight train going at full speed, but last month at the Black Hat Briefings conference in Las Vegas a gentleman by the name of Michael Lynn did more or less just that.
Now that the initial furor over the MGM vs. Grokster Supreme Court case has settled down and the cries from the opposing sides have faded into a grumble, we can look at the decision a little more dispassionately.