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Geo-Encryption: Global Copyright Defense?

Posted by chrisd on from the stay-right-where-you-are dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "CIO Insight has a story on the copyright-protection scheme devised by Georgetown professor Dorothy Denning. Geo-encryption uses GPS technology to keep information scrambled until it reaches a precise location anywhere in the world. Denning has started a new company, GeoCodex, to capitalize on the technology." I can't wait for the Crypto-Gram article about this one..

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  1. Good Lord by daeley · · Score: 4, Funny

    Armed with Denning's geo-encryption system, which she co-patented in 1998, only people in specified locations, such as movie theaters, living rooms or corporate conference rooms, would be able to unscramble the data.

    This is going to make playing with the hanger-antenna on top of the TV look like nothing. "Honey, I can't watch the movie until you bring it in the living room." What's worse though...

    Medical records could be sent from a doctor in Peoria for a second opinion to a doctor in Manhattan--and all without the usual worries over privacy leaks to insurers or investigators along the way.

    "But doctor, I thought I *was* a Region 1 patient."

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    I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
  2. Holidays? by Mengoxon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great, that means I can't listen to my music, DVDs, use my software when I am on holidays, on a business trip or at my second home?