Annalee Newitz Quotes
When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.
Newitz, Annalee. "io9 Is Joining Gizmodo, and I'm Moving On." io9, Gawker Media, 2015.
The MPAA actually took the position that a person or an organization should not be allowed to make a backup of a digital file of a movie even though the person has bought the DVD. Valenti would not recognize that DVDs are subject to a host of risks including corruption of the data; erasure by magnets or magnetic fields; melting, warping or bending; scratching, and a host of other problems. He also would have precluded showing a movie on a tablet where the file is written in memory or a number of other basic functions. He sought protection that no other producer of digital intellectual property received. Creators of computer programs, data bases, books, photographs are just a few.
Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction, who has written for the periodicals Popular Science and Wired. From 1999 to 2008 Newitz wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004 Newitz became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded Other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2015 Newitz was Editor-in-Chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker's design and technology blog. As of 2019, Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times.
