Your cyberpunk games are dangerous

Re:Your cyberpunk games are dangerous by pyre on Sunday May 10, 2015 @12:30PM (#9520388)

I've read a couple of previous write-ups regarding the raid on Steve Jackson Games, but this one provided a number of details I don't remember the others having (though I could have just failed to remember them).

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Re:Your cyberpunk games are dangerous by waterlesscloud on Sunday May 10, 2015 @02:39PM (#9520867)

Sci-fi author Bruce Sterling's non-fiction book _The Hacker Crackdown_ covers the era pretty well, and is freely available. Sterling, after all, coined the very phrase "Information wants to be free."

http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html

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Re:Your cyberpunk games are dangerous by escap on Sunday May 10, 2015 @11:22PM (#9522517)

per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free the phrase is attributed to Stewart Brand "On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."

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Re:Your cyberpunk games are dangerous by waterlesscloud on Monday May 11, 2015 @01:19AM (#9522856)

Huh. Looks like I've wrongly attributed that phrase for pretty much its entire lifetime!

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