I'm less concerned about DRM and moving product between devices. That is a choice of the consumer. Buy from Amazon if you don't like iTunes (or Walmart). Or buy Android or Nokia if you don't like iPhone.
What bothers me, which I think Dan's rights are most important for is my data. My attention stream, my personal search data, my usage data, etc. etc. Basically, the content/information that is GENERATED by me, not collected or consumed. The idea that the system that the content is generated on owns it, needs to be delved into deeper. I.e. does Google own every idea I ever wrote in Gmail? They can with a few loose word changes of the EULA that most people would never read, right? That doesn't even get into my contact list, search requests, link clicks, etc. etc. that I do inside the Google eco-system. Yes, the issues of portability are important, but get confused b/c there are soooo many closed systems. I.e. if I buy a PS3 game it will only run on PS3 and no Wii owner complains about it. So if I buy music on iTunes I understand that it is for the Apple eco-system and I deal w/ it and quite honestly, I can always convert to Audio CD and re-own the important part of the content (the music) even though I know I loose the metadata (though I never understood why, except to e annoying! Since the information we generate can actually be used against us, I think that regulation around privacy is important similar to HIPAA regulations around medical data/information. I do think that the "consumer" be damned and ignorance is no excuse for errors feels a tad against our UCD philosophy. We know that people can be easily manipulated and doing so is not nice to say the least. ;-) - dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35669 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
