also - a piece of the hearings that I've had a hard time articulating b/c it threatens to make me sob with anger each time: I can't express how simultaneously powerful + infuriating it is/was to watch at least three (openly) NB/queer folk bring the fucking hammer of their expertise and lived experience to the U.S. government - on a topic that had nothing to do with "identity politics". they just fucking knew their shit (in a way the all-cis male opponents visibly did not)

Still reflecting on DMCA exemption hearings yesterday and keep going back to how the rightsholders' lawyers kept trying to hide behind a veneer of "we have no objection to preservation, we are just concerned about overly expanding access!!"

which is such a fundamental warping and poisoning of the point of preservation and it's how we get $$$ spent on shit like glass discs on the moon and Python scripts buried in a hole in the Arctic and I hate it so much

I'm extremely agitated but also just like so emotional and proud after listening to @kendraserra @shadsy @despens @LaineNooney (+ Jonathan Band + Cass Fino-Radin!) defend expanded DMCA exemptions for software and game preservation in front of the U.S. Copyright Office today!!!