Aboriginal archive offers new DRM
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| A new method of digital rights management (DRM) which relies on a user's
| profile has been pioneered by Aboriginal Australians.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7214240.stm
Far-fetched -- maybe. Mind the fact that Microsoft wins if DRM is used (see
links below), so any publicity favourable to DRM is good to Microsoft, a BBC
partner. What about other Microsoft partners like National Archives and the
British Library? Does archival need an "I don't trust you" closed-source
encryption? Recipe for a preservation disaster?
Also in the BBC, U2 advocates a "cut the air supply, then ask questions"
approach:
2 manager 'wants end to piracy'
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| The manager of rock band U2 has urged internet service providers (ISPs) to
| help end illegal music downloads, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
|
| Paul McGuinness called for policies on disconnecting those who acquired
| tracks illegally, using a speech in France to urge governments to take
action.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7215226.stm
Related:
British Library calls for digital copyright action
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| In a manifesto released on Monday at the Labor Party Conference
| in Manchester, the United Kingdom's national library warned that the
| country's traditional copyright law needs to be extended to fully
| recognize digital content.
|
| "Unless there is a serious updating of copyright law to recognize
| the changing technological environment, the law becomes an ass,"
| Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library, told ZDNet
| UK.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6119043.html
IFPI publishes Digital Music Report 2008
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| ISP cooperation, via systematic disconnection of infringers and the use of
| filtering technologies, is the most effective way copyright theft can be
| controlled. Independent estimates say up to 80 per cent of ISP traffic
| comprises distribution of copyright-infringing files.
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http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_resources/dmr2008.html
Copyright Extensions and ISP Filtering: Breaking EU Culture, One Amendment at a
Time
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| As you may recall, the European Parliament's forthcoming report on the
| Cultural Industries has become the latest target of lobbying by the recording
| industry. First, they attempted to insert language that advocated that
| European ISPs filter and block their own users on the basis of suspected
| infringement. As we explained to European Members of Parliament, such
| policies would not only harm the privacy and security of Net users - they
| would not even work to combat infringement. Like DRM, everyone would lose,
| including the music industry and artists that IFPI seeks to protect.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/01/copyright-extensions-and-isp-filtering-breaking-eu-culture-one-amendment-time
http://tinyurl.com/2sk3ux
AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter
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| For the past fifteen years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an
| old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow
| uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet.
|
| But ISPs may be about to embrace a new metaphor: traffic cop.
|
| At a small panel discussion about digital piracy here at NBC’s booth on the
| Consumer Electronics Show floor, representatives from NBC, Microsoft, several
| digital filtering companies and telecom giant AT&T said the time was right to
| start filtering for copyrighted content at the network level.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/att-and-other-isps-may-be-getting-ready-to-filter/
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