> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of The Fool > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 7:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Scouted] Big Brother in Dallas County? > > > > From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2003-01-16/schutze.html/1/index.html > > This isn't all that different from Microsoft's Palladium/TCPA plans. > It's that smartcardchip built right into the CPU of the upcoming Intel > and AMD chips. > > It does two things: > 1. It prevents anyone from doing anything anonymously. > 2. It keeps track of everything you do / try.
But software doesn't *have to* use the data, does it? Seems to me that this might encourage development of software that ignores it. This seems like another Internet/Anti-net thing. I suspect that the long-term (and not really that long) effect will be to further isolate big media and big software. And at some point, I hope and believe is possible, big media/software will be smaller than everything else combined and thus begin to lose a lot of its impact. Not that this would be the idealized best way to diminish the concentration of power in big media, but it is the way things go in the world. For those of us who regard big media as an enormously important negative force in the world, the appropriate response would be to encourage alternatives as much as we can. (One of these days, I'll be brave enough to *completely* abandon Windows in favor of Linux.) Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
