two very good papers on DRM and COPYRIGHT

This is an area that is well worth watching. Part of the problem
is that there anyone with even the slightest lefty, pro-sharing
bone in their body has got to be alarmed by some of this. the
whole plan behind a lot of Microsoft's thoughts about "soft wall
rights security" which is, you'd try to do something and it just
wouldn't work and you would just say "Oh well" and go on. It would
perhaps offer that you could buy rights at some small cost. I know
lots of people who like that and see it as a way to reminerate small
publishers who are always short of money. There was one voluntary
but inssistent suystem. It would say: "DOn't yout think Scott's work is
worth 25 cents?"




]> Microsoft Research DRM talk
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> Cory Doctorow
>
> [email protected]
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> June 17, 2004
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> This talk was originally given to Microsoft's Research Group
> and other interested parties from within the company at their
> Redmond offices on June 17, 2004.
>
> Here is the link http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt
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> The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution
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> Peter Biddle, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman
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> Microsoft Corporation[1]
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> Abstract
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>
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> We investigate the darknet - a collection of networks and technologies
> used to share digital content. The darknet is not a separate physical
> network but an application and protocol layer riding on existing networks.
> Examples of darknets are peer-to-peer file sharing, CD and DVD copying,
> and key or password sharing on email and newsgroups. The last few years
> have seen vast increases in the darknet's aggregate bandwidth,
> reliability, usability, size of shared library, and availability of search
> engines. In this paper we categorize and analyze existing and future
> darknets, from both the technical and legal perspectives. We speculate
> that there will be short-term impediments to the effectiveness of the
> darknet as a distribution mechanism, but ultimately the darknet-genie will
> not be put back into the bottle. In view of this hypothesis, we examine
> the relevance of content protection and content distribution
> architectures.
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>
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> Here is the link to the full paper:
> http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc
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> david goldschmidt
> san francisco, ca
> www.mediatrips.com
>
> +++sampling popculture is not a crime