Z:gnu-www-ja-moglen-harvard-speech-2004--90e6d7-In attempting that trick, we w/en

In attempting that trick, we will be confronting a series of owners far more powerful than Microsoft and Disney. You need only consider the actual embedded power of the telecommunications oligopolists in the society around you to recognize just what an uphill battle that one will be. That's the one that we must win if we are to approach the middle of the 21st century in a world in which knowledge is freely available to be shared by everybody. We must see to it that everyone has a birthright in bandwidth, a sufficient opportunity to communicate, to be able to learn on the basis of access to all the knowledge that is there. This is our greatest legal challenge. The freedom of the software layer in the Net is an essential component in that crusade. Our ability to prevent the devices that we use from being controlled by other people is an essential element in that campaign.