Lessig, Morpheus, and Stanford
Lessig, Morpheus, and Stanford story:
Andy Oram:
“…the plug was recently pulled on law professor Lawrence Lessig’s computer by anxious university staff that detected a Morpheus server running on it. He had just installed the server so that he could offer some of his significant and highly desired legal papers to supporters and researchers. Nothing could better illustrate the alternatives facing us than the thrall of richly textured Web Services and the pall of Lessig’s blank monitor.”
Dave Winer:
“He wrote a scholarly paper. He launched a copy of Morpheus and put his paper in the shared folder. Went home for the weekend. On Monday he comes into the office and his computer is disconnected. Stanford security had paid him a visit. “That’s illegal,” they said. Heh. He’s the expert on what’s legal. He wrote the stuff. He wanted to share it. Gotcha.”
