Another dystopian vision

I should have posted this very impressive piece last month, but forgot, so here it is: ‘Burnoff: Part 1 - The Bad Guys Win’ by Tarmle.
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Richard Stallman’s ‘Right To Read’ dystopia growing closer every day

On a screen near you soon

We seem to be accelerating towards the nightmare vision presented by Richard Stallman in his 1997 article, ‘The Right to Read’, ninety years too early, and investigated so thoroughly by Cambridge’s Ross Anderson. (See also here for more discussion of DRM and ‘trusted’ computing). Continue reading ‘Richard Stallman’s ‘Right To Read’ dystopia growing closer every day’

Anti-teenager sound weapon: more comments

This post from last year has been getting a lot of hits over the last few days due to more media coverage of the story - come on & join in the comment debate:
Anti-teenager sound weapon in Wales

‘Value of your home to be determined by the “freedom” your gadgets exhibit’

In a piece examining GPL v.3 and Linus Torvalds’ recent comments (‘If Linus snubs new GPL, is that it for ‘open source’?’), Andrew Orlowski discusses an idea put to him by a “GPL 3.0 advocate”:
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“Sign software on the digital line”

Bill Thompson, of the BBC’s ‘Go Digital’ programme, sets out very clearly (‘Sign software on the digital line’) many of the issues involved with ‘trusted computing’ and forcing the use of signed software.
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