Feedback Issue No. By Dan Scheraga Emmanuel Goldstein sits on a stage on the top floor of the Pennsylvania Hotel, across from Madison Square Garden. The PA system pipes the phone call to an audience of several hundred snickering computer hackers. Stifled laughter again ripples through the audience. Yet the poor man still sounds confused.
Cheers fill the room.
Beaming, Goldstein holds up the receiver for Jim to hear. The Monday after the convention, at the United States Courthouse overlooking Foley Square, a demonstration was held in support of Goldstein, who is being sued by the Motion Picture Association of America for allegedly violating the controversial and, as yet, untested Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which outlaws technology specifically designed to circumvent copyright protection systems. But hacking is really about educating oneself. It's not about pulling Internet pranks. The H2K event backed up this claim.