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It also goes well with the feeling I've had for a long time; that the industry must adapt to the medium, rather than trying to handcuff end users using new technology. Lost in the whole downloading debate, it seems, is the fact that copyright is not about ownership of a product, but the balance between ownership of tangible property and the ownership that comes with the development of that property ('intellectual property'). He also goes through a number of viewpoints on the whole DRM issue, including society, artists, business and, ultimately, Microsoft.
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December 22, 2004 -- 11:40 AM
posted by Par
Wow. I've read about Cory Doctorow's (also of BoingBoing.net fame) DRM talk, but I never actually read it until today. It's a little long, but well worth the read, and goes well with that Tycho quote I posted not long ago, in that the moral arguments about copyright law are superfluous. Cory rather handily takes on the argument of absolute morality in copyright law (the "downloading is theft" approach to the internet):
Technology that disrupts copyright does so because it simplifies and cheapens creation, reproduction and distribution. The existing copyright businesses exploit inefficiencies in the old production, reproduction and distribution system, and they'll be weakened by the new technology. But new technology always gives us more art with a wider reach: that's what tech is *for*.
Tech gives us bigger pies that more artists can get a bite out of. That's been tacitly acknowledged at every stage of the copyfight since the piano roll. When copyright and technology collide, it's copyright that changes.
Which means that today's copyright -- the thing that DRM nominally props up -- didn't come down off the mountain on two stone tablets. It was created in living memory to accommodate the technical reality created by the inventors of the previous generation. To abandon invention now robs tomorrow's artists of the new businesses and new reach and new audiences that the Internet and the PC can give them.
Tech gives us bigger pies that more artists can get a bite out of. That's been tacitly acknowledged at every stage of the copyfight since the piano roll. When copyright and technology collide, it's copyright that changes.
Which means that today's copyright -- the thing that DRM nominally props up -- didn't come down off the mountain on two stone tablets. It was created in living memory to accommodate the technical reality created by the inventors of the previous generation. To abandon invention now robs tomorrow's artists of the new businesses and new reach and new audiences that the Internet and the PC can give them.
It also goes well with the feeling I've had for a long time; that the industry must adapt to the medium, rather than trying to handcuff end users using new technology. Lost in the whole downloading debate, it seems, is the fact that copyright is not about ownership of a product, but the balance between ownership of tangible property and the ownership that comes with the development of that property ('intellectual property'). He also goes through a number of viewpoints on the whole DRM issue, including society, artists, business and, ultimately, Microsoft.
December 22, 2004 -- 11:21 AM
posted by edo
No no.. I used borrowed a calculator from Paras for that test. I still have to give it back to him. We didnt even need the calculator on the test... or I did the question wrong.
December 22, 2004 -- 11:21 AM
posted by Al
3 more sleeps till Santa!
December 22, 2004 -- 10:23 AM
posted by Al
See you later Adrian. Hope you have fun.
December 22, 2004 -- 10:16 AM
posted by Al
Aren't final over for everyone today?
December 22, 2004 -- 9:07 AM
posted by alison
hey Ed! Safari did! (support the tm symbol) I'm excited. i don't know why you would be, but anywho, it sure is great when your browser does pick things up.
Fly safely AD! (not that this is something you'll get to read before you go, but hey... it's the thought that counts, right?)
and... back to Ed: do you still need my calculator? I assumed by your not showing up that you didn't want it in the end, but it's still available to borrow if you'd like.
December 21, 2004 -- 6:12 PM
posted by edo
Im going to Chilies tonight for all-you-can-eat-fajitas with the people I did my cmput 301 project and 291 projects with. You guys are welcome to come along if you want. I think we're going to call it Geek-feast™.
(With my luck... firefox wont support the ™ symbol...)
December 21, 2004 -- 5:08 PM
posted by AD
well, it's almost time. in 12 hours, I'll be preparing to bored a plain. So to all, a happy christmas. I'll be back really early on the 30th, so you's can all reach me then. Assuming I'm not sleeping/working/other stuff I'd prefer not to tell you about. (you perverts!! It has nothing to do with self-erotisicm!) I should stop while I'm ahead. Anyhoo, it's best when parties happen in such a space and time that I could potentially attend. if not, oh well... Yeah so, enjoy!
December 21, 2004 -- 4:21 PM
posted by alison
ha ha, Paras. that's pretty lame. I almost missed seeing it... nothing above the actual posts is relevant to my frame of reference apparently... You actually had me wondering what it was that you had done to be the jackass, but I got it, jackass!
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