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April 21, 2003
digital watermarking @05:46 PM
Lawrence Lessig has a nice post containing a number of links to the various positions concerning this debate, including his own and how it might affect DRM control of content.
All this is very related to Lessig's own involvement with the Creative Commons project. These ideas of watermarking and protecting digital copyrights are very important as our culture becomes more and more wired, and will extend well beyond the current record / movie industry whining about p2p copyright infringements.
As Rheingold and others have noted, Orwell's "Big Brother" is on the verge of becoming a reality, yet the nature of that menancing, ubiqutous figure has been changed. No longer is the state itself responsible for the enfringement upon privacy, but rather, consumers now sacrifice their own privacy in exchange for convenience. As the mobile web becomes more all-encompassing, these issues of privacy need to be addressed and looked at along the same lines as copyright protection. How can we protect our digital selves? How can we leverage the systems of reflexive commons and existing technologies (such as reputation systems, semantic locations) to ensure that we don't want people seeing what we don't want them to see?
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