Qui, 2007-05-10 às 22:46 +1000, Ben Finney escreveu:
The fight against DRM technology is going surprisingly well. The issues are becoming understandable and known by people I would never have expected to care about the issues.
So well they're (HBO) now trying to replace DRM with DCE.
IIRC, this new acronym stands for:
Digital Consumer Enablement
But it's just DRM with another name, since we've achieved one great thing: people now see DRM and they know it's not for their own good.
This new name is much more dangerous since it's appealing. I propose to replace it with:
Digital Consumer Encarceration
Or maybe some better words, but hey, this is my first thought... :)
Read more in here: http://www.hill-kleerup.org/blog/2007/05/10/war_is_peace_freedom_is_s.html
I don't see why we can't gain similar exposure of the threats of treacherous computing -- but *only* if we make our actions match our words, and reject it as clearly and consistently as we reject DRM.
And now there's DCE as well!
Rui