Doctorow on the Demise of the Digital Hub

natpoor writes "Cory Doctorow writes an excellent piece in this week's TidBITS about how Hollywood is out to destroy the digital hub and what it means for citizens and open source. "In Hollywood's paranoid fantasy, digital television plus Internet equals total and immediate 'Napsterization' of every movie shown on TV." Slashdotters will know some of it, but this is the best write-up I've seen, and it is well-linked. Far more important than AOL on OSX!"

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Big Brother in Europe

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From this side of the pond, it seems ordinary Americans are more aware of the close CCTV surveillance of their British friends rather than the bigger "invasion of privacy" that is going on under their noses right now in the name of piracy prevention.

If ordinary Americans aren't made aware of the restrictions are being imposed, by the time they do realise it will be too late.

In my own home, I am unable to take a CD that I purchased, make a copy of it on my own computer and transfer it to my own MP3 player unless I resort to marker pens or real time transfer from my CD player.

I realise that piracy is a bad thing even though I am a freeloading student :-) But surely someone must be able to come up with methods that prevent piracy but allow fair use?