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Palladium's Power To Deny

Posted by timothy on from the back-in-line-you dept.

BrianWCarver writes "The Chronicle of Higher Education has the most detailed article I've yet seen on Microsoft's Palladium architecture. The article discusses the potential Palladium has to give publishers power to eliminate fair use and the potential for software manufacturers to use Palladium to enforce shrink-wrap licenses. Comments from several great sources including, Ed Felten (Freedom to Tinker), Eben Moglen (pro-bono counsel for the Free Software Foundation and recent Slashdot interviewee), and Seth Schoen (Electronic Frontier Foundation) among many others. Key quotations from article: Palladium could create 'a closed system, in which each piece of knowledge in the world is identified with a particular owner, and that owner has a right to resist its copying, modification, and redistribution. In such a scenario the very concept of fair use has been lost.' 'Palladium will "turn the clock back" to the days before online information was widely available.' and 'Microsoft could decide to lock everything up.'"

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  1. Palladium is Draconian by MFInc2001 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Palladium is Draconian. It ultimately attempts to use DRM to maintain what is quickly becoming an obsolete strategy to information and publishing. Intelligent use of bandwidth is the key, not perpetual attempts to control the information-content itself. Microsoft needs to get a clue.


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  2. This is both good, and neccessary. by mosch · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    It's far too easy to completely share thousands of multimedia files with millions of people who have no right to do so, and the content owners are persecuted for attempting to enforce their rights via copyright. It's also become clear that there's a large population of people who believe it is acceptable to steal if they can do it without leaving their homes.

    Yes, it's terrible that fair use rights are being hurt, but it's even worse that consumers feel that one of their rights is the right to rape corporations, simply because they're corporations. Those mp3s on your hard drive aren't fair use. Those divx copies of lord of the rings aren't fair use either.

    Until this problem of massive theft is solved, expect content owners to keep raising the hurdles. If you want it to stop, then stop stealing, get your friends and family to stop stealing, and then you'll find that these restrictions will not be implemented, because there will be no need.

  3. Re:One-step process by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fuck off.