Palladium's Power To Deny

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.'"

Comments

I'm sick of security

[cyko500]

I am utterly sick of new security features in everything computer related. Every time we get more "security" rammed down our throats there's always somthing tagged along with it, some new way to slowly convice us to give up our rights.
I use no antivirus bs and never update windows (God knows I dont wanna read the EULA's) because one of these days they are bound to have some clause in there about MS getting yer soul in return for "security" "updates". I need no security.... Use yer friggin brain and you dont get viruses.... My router + my brain = not one virus ever on any of my computers. People need to learn about computers; they need to realize what personal rights they are blindly giving away for "security" that they don't need.

Re:=[ sad

[BFaucet]

I'm an american. I'm a male. I'm 20 years old. There is a bill being considered to enact something very much like the draft (it's actually more scary than the old draft.) If we go to war the military is going to try to send me to war. War has ruined the lives of thousands of veterans (including two I have met personally.) I do not want my life destoryed, much less ended, so that some rich asshole can make more money (After all that's what this war is about.) Gee why does war with Iraq concern me more than my ability to download music and use software as I please?

If you must know I'm protesting against more than just war (it is possible to stand for more than one thing.) I have written my representatives about the war, the patriot act, the extension of the patriot act, INS profiling, big business, corruption in the government, etc, etc. As well as signed multiple petitions protesting Palladium.

I suggest you do the same.

www.congress.org
(Quick and dirty way to write your representatives)

www.votetoimpeach.com
(Bush probably won't be impeached, but this'll be a good way to show congress Bush is not liked by MANY people.)