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The Imperfect is the Enemy of the Good: Anticircumvention Versus Open Innovation
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| Digital Rights Management, law-backed
| technological control of usage of copyrighted
| works, is clearly imperfect: It often fails to
| stop piracy and frequently blocks non-
| infringing uses. Yet the drive to correct
| these imperfections masks a deeper conflict,
| between the DRM system of anticircumvention
| and open development in the entire surrounding
| media environment. This conflict, at the heart
| of the DRM schema, will only deepen, even if
| other aspects of DRM can be improved. This
| paper takes a systemic look at the legal,
| technical, and business environment of DRM to
| highlight this openness conflict and its
| effects.
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1496058
East, west coast cities mull pro-net neutrality resolutions
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| San Francisco considered its measure at a
| hearing just before Thanksgiving. The
| resolution urges the FCC to "to codify strong
| network neutrality principles in order to
| ensure that the Internet will continue to
| foster innovation, increase competition, and
| spur economic growth as well as making the
| Internet faster and more affordable for all."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/san-francisco-new-york-city-considering-net-neutrality-resolutions.ars
Recent:
The Ever-Nimble, Mobile Linux
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| I know that not many people ever believed it,
| but the old complaint about free software never
| innovating is being disproved magnificently in
| a whole new field: mobile phones. It's becoming
| increasing clear that alongside the iPhone,
| which is still the leader in this sector â at
| the moment â the other driving force is mobile
| Linux.
|
| [...]
|
| That's why free software will always *power*
| more innovation than closed source, even if it
| is not always itself the most innovative
| technology.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?RSS&entryid=2663
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