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the european enforcement directive»RIAA-style revealing of subscriber identities without even sub poenas? And worse? What fresh hell is this?
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transcribing phone interviews»
I’m spending the day listening to my own cackling voice asking dumb questions of smart people. They’re all very quiet people, too, and I foolishly left the laptop recording with the noisy mains plugged-in, so all I can hear is my booming idiocy and then them speaking as though through a lawnmower, darkly.
That said, this piece is going better than most. My expectations of what my interviewees would say have not been so undermined that I’ll have to rejig the entire skeleton structure I originally had in mind. But I’ve still been sufficiently surprised by what they have to say that I know I’m not just imposing my naive pre-story belief onto the facts.
Plus, I’m getting to write about new RFCs in a mainstream publication, which is always to the good.