Archive for the 'DRM' Category
Vista a Threat to Internet Freedom?
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007BBC 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 […]
The Nexus of Intellectual Privacy and Copyright
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006Alex 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 […]
CFP: Identity and Identification in a Networked World Graduate Student Symposium
Friday, May 19th, 2006[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, […]
Google Video and Privacy
Monday, January 23rd, 2006Ed 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 […]




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