Also interestingly explored in Vernor Vinge's "Rainbow's End" On 07/26/2013 06:18 PM, Steve Weis wrote: > DRM technologies have a flip side as privacy-preserving technology. > It's all a matter of whose data is being protected and who owns the > hardware. > > We generally think of DRM in cases where the data owner is large > company and an individual owns the hardware. In this case, DRM stops > you from copying data you paid for from your own device. > > Now flip the roles. You're the data owner and the large company is the > hardware owner; say a cloud computing provider you lease machines > from. Those same technologies can prevent that service provider from > accessing your private data. > > Cory Doctrow has come around to this view, as he discusses in his talk > "The coming civll war over general purpose computing" [1]. He's now > advocating the use of Trust Platform Modules (TPMs) as a "nub of > stable certainty" which you can use to verify that whatever hardware > you are using is faithfully booting your own software. This is a > significant departure from viewing TPMs as an anti-consumer > technology, which was espoused by groups like Chilling Effects [2]. > > As Doctrow puts it "a victory for the "freedom side" in the war on > general purpose computing would result in computers that let their > owners know what was running on them". Some of the very same > technologies that enable DRM could help us verify that computers are > running what they should be. > > [1] http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html > [2] http://chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/weather.cgi?WeatherID=534 > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Richard Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: >> Obviously, these issues have been very thoroughly discussed >> by Corey Doctorow and Larry Lessig. DRM has not proved to be >> effective at safeguarding intellectual property. It seems >> to be most effective as a tool in maintaining limited >> monopolies, since it stops other companies from investing >> in creating products compatible with existing products. >> > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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