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Cory Doctorow on Innovation as unintended consequence, re the DMCA and CBDTPA. Explaining why this is a bad thing is tricky. When Hollywood asks us to enumerate the uses we'll lose if it gets its way, we can't. That's innovation for you. If we could predict the future uses of new technology, they wouldn't be innovative. That's innovation. It's the force that drives our civilization. It's the force that drives our culture. It's the force that makes us human ("the tool-using animal").