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You just know this won't last. Ed Felten's Freedom to Tinker weblog - which routinely rails against digital rights management legislation and technologies - is funded by Google Ads paid for by the very companies Felten attacks. This is, of course, because the Google program uses page content to select the ads to display. No doubt these companies will soon be knocking at Google's door demanding the advertiser's traditional right to be the prime censor of commercial content in broadcast (or any other) media.

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