布拉德·坦普顿(Brad Templeton)——电子前沿基金会(EFF)董事会主席
Brad Templeton假如你对电子版权体系感到不满，如果你自己的隐私曾遭到侵犯，你要知道Brad Templeton和他的电子边界基金会（Electronic Frontier Foundation）是你的朋友。他们曾为那些被美国唱片行业协会（Recording Industry Association of America）所起诉的文件分享者们而辩护；他们曾对美国在线（America Online）披露用户搜索记录的行为而发起过抗议；现在他们又在为那些刊登了礼来制药公司（Eli Lilly）所谓的“谣言”—— 有关于精神类药物“再普乐（Zyprexa）”的副作用相关的泄密文档 —— 的博客们重获言论自由而斗争。Templeton 对“版权问题”和“言论自由”所拥有的激情并不令人感到惊讶。这位互联网出版界的斗士从1989年就开始了自己的事业，那时他创建了ClariNet，一家出版他称之为“互联网第一份报纸”的公司。
个人简介回目录
Born April 20, 1960 (1960-04-20)
near Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Brad Templeton
Occupation software engineer, entrepreneur
Parents Charles Templeton, Sylvia Murphy
Brad Templeton (born near Toronto on April 20, 1960), son of Charles Templeton and Sylvia Murphy, is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He graduated from the University of Waterloo.
Templeton is considered one of the early luminaries of Usenet, and in 1989 founded ClariNet Communications Corporation, which used Usenet protocols to distribute news articles, one of the first commercial examples of electronic publishing. In his "Net History in Brief" post, he coined the phrase Imminent death of net predicted. He also founded Looking Glass Software (not the same company as Looking Glass Studios), and was involved in the development of a number of software packages.
He is chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He created the Usenet newsgroup rec.humor.funny in 1987 and moderated it from 1987 to 1992.To Commodore users he's probably best known for Power and the assembler PAL.
Brad TempletonTempleton is widely known in the Internet and legal community for writing about political and social issues related to computing and networks. One of the most frequently-cited works on Internet copyright law is his 10 Big Myths of Copyright Explained. He is known on the rec.arts.comics usenet hierarchy as being one of the few group founders who never went out of their way to run new posters off. Templeton also is the one who coined the term "spamigation", which means massive litigations undertaken solely for the purpose of harassing and intimidating the defendants.
On a lighter note, Templeton also created the character of "Emily Postnews" in his Usenet posting "Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette", a tongue-in-cheek list of all the things one should not do when using Usenet. The name "Emily Postnews" is a double pun, referring first to Emily Post, a self-appointed expert on social etiquette and second, to the postnews program, an early piece of Usenet client software. The full text can be found on Brad Templeton's homepage here.
