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votesKen Fisher of Ars Technica says:
Digital Rights Management. Let’s face it, DRM sucks. It’s anti-consumer, it’s annoying since it prevents full use of content, and it makes us all feel like we’re slaves to the corporate consumption machine. DRM could be spun in the opposite direction, however, and be made to work for us. How? Let’s put “DRM” on our credit cards, on our private information that we share with businesses. Let’s put DRM on “identity” so we can revoke companies’ access to our information if/when they abuse it. It’s our data, it’s our vitals. Why not take control over it by utilization the same revocation schemes used by the entertainment industry.
Stever
September 13th, 2007 at 12:13 am
As the Guiness guys would say, “Brilliant!”
DRM is the computer equivalent of Democrat’s “Fairness Doctrine”. Exactly whose rights are being managed here? Let’s bring these technologies to people who can actually use them in a sensible fashion. The only problem comes when someone decides to “DeCSS” your credit lines. At least we’ll all have a vested interest in making sure the technology that protects us is doing a good job.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I agree. That would really change how we do stuff.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Great Point!!!! You want to run for office and make it happen. That is what politicians used to do right… fight for us the people??? Who am i kidding…. it has always been about money and power.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Technocracy, original style. What they prescribed, turned out to be what they described. Where technology, abundance prevails, and economies of abundance too. DRM is the dinosaur crying in its death throes - how can digital media have intrinsic value in the midst of its abundance?
September 21st, 2007 at 10:41 am
Man, that was one of the best points I have ever seen made. I agree, we should DRM all of our information, so that companies can’t use it if we think they are abusing it. DRM is all about money and power, not about protecting the interests of the author.
September 24th, 2007 at 12:56 am
Excellent! OpenID 2.0 will help the common user begin to understand the ways in which we need to think in order to sufficiently control our identity.
In the future, we will have a competition between non-profit organizations funded by credit companies and identity consumers to provide the best data warehousing and abstraction layer support for integration with a system like OpenID.
I love the temporary card numbers issued by Visa, but we need to be able to generate those and manage them ourselves through another authority that provides additional protections that don’t fit with a company like Visa’s business model.