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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Another dystopian vision
Published February 25th, 2006 in Analog hole, Architectures of Control, DRM, Discriminatory Architecture, External Control, Internet economics, Philosophy of control, Privacy and Trusted Computing. 1 CommentRichard Stallman’s ‘Right To Read’ dystopia growing closer every day
Published February 25th, 2006 in Architectures of Control, DRM, Discriminatory Architecture, External Control, Internet economics, Philosophy of control, Privacy and Trusted Computing. 4 Comments
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
Published February 17th, 2006 in Architectures of Control, Built Environment, Discriminatory Architecture, External Control and Philosophy of control. 0 CommentsThis 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’
Published February 7th, 2006 in Analog hole, Architectures of Control, DRM, Discriminatory Architecture, External Control, Philosophy of control, Privacy and Trusted Computing. 0 CommentsIn 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”
Published February 3rd, 2006 in Architectures of Control, DRM, External Control, Philosophy of control and Trusted Computing. 0 CommentsBill 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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