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Clay Shirky: RIAA Succeeds Where Cypherpunks Fail

Posted by michael on from the sufficient-motivation dept.

scubacuda writes "Clay Shirky has an interesting take on encryption: 'The RIAA is succeeding where the Cypherpunks failed, convincing users to trade a broad but penetrable privacy for unbreakable anonymity under their personal control. In contrast to the Cypherpunks "eat your peas" approach, touting encryption as a first-order service users should work to embrace, encryption is now becoming a background feature of collaborative workspaces. Because encryption is becoming something that must run in the background, there is now an incentive to make its adoption as easy and transparent to the user as possible. It's too early to say how widely casual encryption use will spread, but it isn't too early to see that the shift is both profound and irreversible.'"

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  1. Re:Jesus Saves by rco3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Haploid.

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  2. How to Win a War by theonetruekeebler · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    1. Declare victory.
    Ta da! You've won a war! What? Didn't know there was a war going on? We like, didn't want to scare you? So we fought it? In secret? And we won? So now you should do thing our way? And pay us? Money we don't deserve?

    (P.S. Step 3 ???, Step 4 profit.)

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  3. Re:The USA sucks by PitaBred · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And voting for Dean means you haven't been brainwashed by media? Isn't he the guy who claims to have the approval of the guy who claimed to have invented the Internet? Take a cue from Douglas Adams. The person least interested in having the power is more than likely the person most capable of handling it.

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  4. ...same old Al Gore Internet canard by NSash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And voting for Dean means you haven't been brainwashed by media? Isn't he the guy who claims to have the approval of the guy who claimed to have invented the Internet?

    Speaking of being brainwashed by the media, AL GORE NEVER SAID THAT. Sheesh, you'd think that with all the times this has been debunked, you people would eventually get it through your heads.

  5. Re:snake oil by rifter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The idiom "to coin a phrase" is also used in an alternative sense, "to bring out a hackneyed saying yet again".

    No it is not. Or was never the last I checked. Do you have a source?