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April 06, 2004

The digital data lockdown

Last night NPR's "All Things Considered" ran a commentary of mine on the danger that the convergence of three technologies - Digital Restrictions Management, Digital ID and "Trusted" Computing - threatens to make content on the Net far more owned and restrictive than in the real world. Here are links to the RealPlayer and Windows Media Player versions of it. (Please keep in mind that I had three minutes to cover a lot of territory, so, yes, what I say is waaay over-simplified.)

Posted by D. Weinberger at April 6, 2004 11:44 AM

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