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000000	ERIK SCHMIDT: So you mentioned earlier that the Patent Busting Project started with you selected the ten most wanted patents
000008	with overly broad with potentially prior use, and prior art rather.
000016	So what do you see the role of technologists and the general public in helping you with the Patent Busting Project?
000024	JASON SCHULTZ: Well, we rely very much on the public at large and technologists who want to help us out.
000030	With each patent we try and put up a description of the prior art we're looking for and we try and put it out there in non-legalese.
000038	In very clear sometimes technical terms about what piece of evidence we're looking for
000044	and we've gotten some great submissions.
000047	When we make our announcements about what we're looking for people are very eager to respond and help.
000053	And so that's actually been our greatest asset in many ways.
000055	So it's been the public's willingness to help take a look around in their own disciplines and try and help us find things.
000103	Or help us contact someone who's an expert in the field who might be able to do us a favor at no cost by helping us find something we need.
000112	ERIK SCHMIDT: Do you find that, in general, since the EFF has started, do you find that there has been a growth in interest in the public at large? 
000122	and the issues that you're bringing up, not just at the Patent Busting Project?
000127	JASON SCHULTZ: Yes EFF has been lucky to have been around now for 16 years.
000132	And when it started out I think it was a much smaller group of very dedicated sort of cyber libertarians who were helping us sort of get our feet planted.
000146	But now so many people use the Internet, so many people search on Google, send e-mail, IM their friends and their loved ones 
000156	or blog about whatever they're doing on a daily basis.
000200	That when we talk about these issues it really reaches much deeper into society.
000205	My parents actually know what I do now, for instance.
000209	They actually get it because they use a lot of these tools or they have friends who do.
000213	And I think people start to see that your individual rights and personal freedoms are at stake.
000220	If you can't publish online it is a form of censorship.
000225	If the government is reading your e-mail that is an invasion of your privacy.
000231	If a patent holder can control your use of technology that is a freedom that you lose.