Articles in the DRM Category
DRM, Microsoft »
BBC columnist Bill Thompson warns readers that new DRM technology, especially that found in Vista, is damaging the freedoms that the Internet was based on:
The freedom of expression that was once available to users of the Internet Protocol is being stripped away. Our freedom to play, experiment, share and seek inspiration from the creative works of others is increasingly restricted so that large companies can lock our culture down for their own profit. [...] governments and corporations around the world are making a concerted effort to dismantle the open Internet …
Copyright, DRM, Intellectual Privacy »
Alex Cameron has posted a nice essay on “The Nexus of Intellectual Privacy and Copyright” at the ID Trail Mix blog. Its opening salvo:
For nearly three centuries since the enactment of the world’s first copyright statute, individuals have been free to travel the kingdom of copyright as countrymen, enjoying the delightful objects to be found there, in private and without any notice taken. Historically, neither copyright law nor copyright holders have interfered with individuals’ freedom to enjoy copyright works in private. This centuries-old relationship between copyright and privacy has changed …
Conferences, Cookies, DRM, IINW, Identity, Identity 2.0, Internet, Law, Online Privacy, Privacy, RFID, Spyware, Surveillance, Technology & Society, Web 2.0 »
[I am one of the organizers the following graduate student symposium to be held this fall at NYU]
CALL FOR PAPERS
Identity and Identification in a Networked World:
A Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium
When: September 29-30, 2006
Where: New York University
Submission deadline: July 5, 2006
Increasingly, who we are is represented by key bits of information scattered throughout the data-intensive, networked world. Online and off, these core identifiers mediate our sense of self, social interactions, movements through space, and access to …
DRM, Google, Online Privacy, Privacy »
Ed Felton has a fabulous post on the privacy implications of the Google Video’s DRM technology. In his summation, he captures what the ongoing privacy issues with Google really mean for the company:
…Google’s famous “don’t be evil” motto, and customers’ general trust that the company won’t be evil, may get Google into trouble. As more and more data builds up in the company’s disk farms, the temptation to be evil only increases. Even if the company itself stays non-evil, its data trove will be a massive temptation for others to …
