The Register’s Ashley Vance asks whether Google’s lack of immediate transparency about its new DRM , as will be used in the recently announced video download service, breaches the company’s famous “don’t be evil” mantra.
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Is Google DRM crippling culture as great as it seems? - The Register
Published January 9th, 2006 in Analog hole, Architectures of Control, DRM, Internet economics and Trusted Computing. 0 CommentsMicrosoft blocking MP3s on Verizon Wireless phones? - Engadget
Published January 9th, 2006 in Architectures of Control, DRM and External Control. 3 Comments
Via Engadget (“Microsoft blocking MP3s on Verizon Wireless phones?”), another example of an architecture of control being imposed on a product or service subsequent to purchase by a mandated firmware or software update (the TiVo example is the best-known in this category).
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Breaking Racial Sound Barriers
Published January 6th, 2006 in Architectures of Control, DRM, Discriminatory Architecture, Philosophy of control and Trusted Computing. 0 CommentsVia Furdlog, a Washington Post article by Christopher John Farley, “Breaking Racial Sound Barriers”, presents an interesting spin on the likelihood of architectures of control creating/enforcing/reinforcing a marginalised “technology underclass,” as I previously discussed (to some extent, anyway) in Some implications of architectures of control.
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